Nursing Ethics
Intensive Course on Foundational Approaches, Contemporary and Educational Issues in the Field of Nursing Ethics
Keynote Speaker: Helena Leino-Kilpi (Chair, Department of Nursing Science, University of Turku, Finland) & Course coordinator: Chris Gastmans
Since the beginning of the 1980s, nursing ethics has developed to such a degree that it is now considered a fixture within applied ethics. The specific positions occupied within health care by nurses, their expertise and their responsibilities all result in their being confronted by ethically sensitive issues.
The objective of the course is to foster exchanges on foundational and methodological approaches as well as on comtemporary and educational issues in nursing ethics. More specifically, the aims of this course are:
(1) To analyse fundamental notions that are being discussed in the field of nursing ethics, namely various notions of care, moral practice, the human person, vulnerability, dignity, and trust. As such, extensive understanding will be provided into the ethical and philosophical foundations of the practice of nursing.
(2) To educate participants on a range of ethical topics that are predominant in the contemporary debate in nursing ethics, namely, nursing ethics perspectives on end-of-life care and on elderly care. These topics will be explored from a philosophical-ethical perspective as well as from an empirical-ethical perspective.
(3) To introduce participants into methodological and educational aspects of nursing ethics.
(4) To establish exchange among national and international experts with respect to new developments in nursing ethics from an international perspective.
Participants December 2011
Programme Overview
Wednesday, 5 December 2012: Foundational Approaches
9h00-9h30: Welcome
Chris Gastmans
9h30-10h30: Introduction in Nursing Ethics
Chris Gastmans
What is Nursing Ethics?
Sources (databases, journals, books, organisation, ....) in Nursing Ethics
10h30-11h00: Refreshments
11h-13h00: Foundational Approaches to Nursing Ethics
Chris Gastmans
The Care Ethics Approach
13h00-14h00: Lunch
14h-15h: Foundational Approaches to Nursing Ethics
Chris Gastmans
The Care Ethics Approach: The Case of Artificial Nutrition and Hydration
15h30-16h00: Refreshments
16h00-18h00: Keynote Lecture: Ethics in Patient Education
Helena Leino-Kilpi
18h00-18h30: Reception
Thursday, 6 December 2012: Educational Issues
9h00-10h00: Nurses' Ethical Reasoning and Behaviour
Sabine Goethals
10h00-11h30: Nurses' Responses to Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing Practice
Bernadette Dierckx de Casterlé
12h00-13h30: Transfer by Bus to Moorsele
14h-17h: Nursing Ethics Education
Linus Vanlaere - Trees Coucke - Ann Lammens - Chris Gastmans
Visit to an innovative initiative in nursing ethics education: sTimul: Care Ethics Lab (www.stimul.be)
Ethics in Nursing Education
17h30-18h30: Dinner
20h00: Concert
Concert Hall, Bruges (www.concertgebouw.be)
Friday, 7 December 2012: Methodological and Contemporary Issues
9h00-11h00: Methodological issues
Bernadette Dierckx de Casterlé
Grounded Theory and Nursing Ethics Research
11h00-11h30: Refreshments
11h30-13h00: Nursing Ethics Perspectives on Elderly Care
Lieslot Mahieu
Nurses and Intimacy and Sexuality in Dementia Care
13h00-14h00: Lunch
14h-16h: Nursing Ethics Perspectives on End-of-Life Care
Yvonne Denier
Nurses and Euthanasia: Caregivers Perspectives
16h-16h30: Refreshments
16h30-18h00: Nursing Ethics Perspectives on Elderly Care
Chris Gastmans
Nursing and Artificial Nutrition and Hydration Decision Making in Persons with Dementia: Clinical Ethics Perspective
18h00-18h30: Reception
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Registration for the Intensive Course Nursing Ethics
Accomodation in Leuven
