NURS 8714 Nursing Ethics and Professional Responsibility in Advanced Practice

Name: Nursing Ethics and Professional Responsibility in Advanced Practice
Rating: 4.54 (328 reviews)

The course prepares advanced practice nurses for ethics leadership within the broader healthcare arena. Links are made among philosophical/theoretical foundations of nursing, ethical theory, and nursing goals. Skills supportive of the ethical decision making of nurses, peers, and the team are developed with in-class opportunities to practice leading ethics rounds and developing ethics education projects. An emphasis is placed on facilitating the interests of current and future patients and society as a professional obligation. Socially derived injustices and professional responsibility to advocate for just healthcare is highlighted along with strategies to influence institutional and health policy on behalf of individual and social good.

Course overview

Department: Nursing
School: CSON
Credits: 3
Level: Graduate
Offered: Every Fall,Every Spring,Every Summer

Catalog details

Prerequisites: Graduate Nursing Student or permission of Instructor

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Requirements fulfilled

No source-backed degree requirement is attached to this course yet.

Official evaluation summary

4.54 / 5

Based on 328 aggregate responses from BC Avalanche/Blue evaluations.

Data freshness

Course and evaluation data last updated 2026-08-02. Source details and limitations are documented in Data Sources and Methodology.

Instructors

Aimee Milliken
Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023 · Official rating 4.93/5
Melissa Uveges
Summer 2025, Summer 2024, Fall 2021 · Official rating 4.69/5
Pamela Grace
Summer 2022, Spring 2022 · Official rating 4.71/5
Richard Ross
Fall 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022 · Official rating 4.28/5

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