COLEGIO DE STA.

MONICA
# 98 Marcos Alvarez Ave., Talon Uno, Las Piñas City

COLLEGE OF NURSING
COURSE OUTLINE

Course Code: BIOETHICS

Course Title: Bioethics
Placement: 2 year 1st semester
nd

Units: 3 units
Course Description: This course deals with the application of ethico-moral
and legal concepts and principles to issue that affect
the practice of nursing. These provide basis for the
appropriate decision-making given varied situations,
to prepare the learner to render effective, efficient,
and safe nursing care. Furthermore related learning
experiences provide opportunities to concretize
commitment to nursing. The critical thinking process
shall be used in the unit with the objective of
developing the intellectual capacity to conceptualize
and contextualize what students know about
particular ethico-moral and legal issues

Terminal Competencies: At the end of the course and given relevant

actual or simulated situations/ conditions, the
student will be able to:
1. Explain the concepts, theories, and principles of
bioethics in nursing and health
2. Apply relevant bioethical principles in nursing and
health related situations

PRELIM PERIOD
A. Definition of Terms
1. Ethics
2. Biology
3. Bioethics
4. Health ethics
5. Professional ethics
B. Concepts Commonly Associated with Ethics
1. Customs
2. Habits
3. Practices
4. Etiquette
C. The Human Person
1. The personhood
2. Human acts and Acts of man
a. Knowledge
b. Freedom
c. Voluntariness
3. Conscience
a. Kohlberg’s stages of Moral Development
b. Levels of Personality
4. Self-Concept
a. Types of Self-concept
1. Cognized self
2. Ideal self
3. Social self
b. Components of the Self-concept
1. Body image
 2. Self-esteem
3. Identity
4. Role performance
5. Elicited Acts
a. Wish
b. Intention
c. Election
d. Use
e. Fruition

MIDTERM PERIOD
D. Basic Ethical Principles
1. Stewardship
2. Totality
3. Double-effect
4. Cooperation
5. Solidarity
E. Major Bioethical Principles
1. Respect for person
2. Justice
3. Inviolability of Life
4. Non-maleficence
5. Beneficence
6. Veracity
F. Types of Ethical Thoughts
1. Kantian
2. Rawl’s Ethics
3. St. Thomas Aquinas
4. Ross Ethics
a. Actual/ Prima-facie Duty
b. Duty of Fidelity
c. Duty of Reparation
d. Duty of Gratitude
e. Duty of Justice
f. Duty of Beneficence
g. Duty of Improvement
h. Duty of Non-maleficence
FINAL PERIOD
G. The calling of the health care provider
1. The health care profession
2. The client
3. The health care provider
4. Health care provider-client relationship
H. The qualities and responsibilities of a good health care provider to the
client, society and its profession
I. The virtues, vices, and habits of a health care provider
1. Virtues
a. Fidelity
b. Honesty
c. Integrity
d. Humility
e. Respect
f. Compassion
g. Prudence
h. Courage
2. Vices
a. Fraud
 b. Pride
c. Greed
3. Habits
a. Types of good habits
b. Type of bad habits

J. Application of bioethical principles to the care of the sick

1. Functions of informed consent
2. Rights of a Patient
K. Prevalence of Bioethical Issues
a. Abortion
b. Euthanasia
c. Suicide
d. Determination of Death (Biological and Clinical)
e. In-vitro Fertilization
f. Stem-cell technology

GRADING SYSTEM:
PRELIM – 30% Class Standing 60%
MIDTERM – 30% Quizzes – 30 %
FINALS – 40 % Recitations – 10%
100% Reports – 10%
Projects – 10%
Term Exam 40%
REFERENCES:
Ciabal, Laura Evelyn. Ethics for Health Professionals, copyright
2003
Delaune, Sue. Fundamentals of Nursing – Standards and Practice
2nd ed., copyright 2002
Alora, Rosario A. A Handbook in Bioethics, Bookmark, Inc.
copyright 1999
Timbreza, Florentino T. Bioethics and Moral Decisions, De La
Salle University Press, Inc. copyright 1993
Baldago, Lily Ann R. Philippine Nursing Act 2002 Annotated, Anvil
Publishing copyright 2004
Bullough, Bonnie, Bullough, Vern, Nursing Issues for the Nineties
and Beyond, Springer Publishing Company, copyright 1994