Mar 28, 2024  
Yakima Valley College Catalog 2021-2022 
    
Yakima Valley College Catalog 2021-2022 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PHIL 112: Ethics and Policy in Healthcare I

3 Cr
Quarters: F, W, S
Students will apply teleological ethics (including act utilitarianism and rule utilitarianism) to ethical problems in health care practice.  Problems are to include nursing practices, end-of-life care, and gerontology.  Normative ethics will also be applied in examining health care laws that govern nursing practice.  Students will learn to distinguish between normative, meta-ethical, and descriptive moral claims (to include moral relativism versus moral realism).
Prerequisite: Admission to the YVC Nursing program.