NURS 8714 Nursing Ethics and Professional Responsibility in Advanced Practice
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
Course evaluations
- Course rating
- 4.54 / 5 · Excellent
- Instructor rating
- 4.63 / 5 · Excellent
- Terms evaluated
- 11
| Term | Instructor | Course overall | Instructor overall | Well organized | Clear learning objectives | Intellectually challenging | Helpful assignments | Applicable beyond course | Attendance necessary | Weekly effort | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2025 | Aimee Milliken | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.8 | 1–3 hrs/week | 27 of 27 |
| Fall 2025 | Richard Ross | 4.5 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 1–3 hrs/week | 18 of 23 |
| Summer 2025 | Melissa Uveges | 4.5 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.2 | — | 13 of 23 |
| Fall 2024 | Aimee Milliken | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 4.9 | — | 31 of 36 |
| Summer 2024 | Melissa Uveges | 4.2 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.7 | 3.9 | 4–6 hrs/week | 28 of 38 |
| Spring 2024 | Richard Ross | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.1 | 7–9 hrs/week | 16 of 18 |
| Fall 2023 | Aimee Milliken | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 31 of 34 |
| Fall 2023 | Richard Ross | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 31 of 34 |
| Spring 2023 | Aimee Milliken | 4.3 | 5.0 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 1–3 hrs/week | 33 of 40 |
| Spring 2023 | Richard Ross | 4.3 | 4.1 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 1–3 hrs/week | 33 of 40 |
| Fall 2022 | Richard Ross | 4.3 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4–6 hrs/week | 25 of 28 |
| Summer 2022 | Pamela Grace | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.3 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4–6 hrs/week | 4 of 11 |
| Spring 2022 | Pamela Grace | 4.5 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 4–6 hrs/week | 24 of 42 |
| Fall 2021 | Melissa Uveges | 4.6 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.9 | 4.6 | 4–6 hrs/week | 14 of 26 |