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Course: Ethics of Health Care

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Course title Ethics of Health Care
Course code HUM/ZZA31
Organizational form of instruction Lesson + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 3
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 1
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Vévoda Jiří, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Koblížek Jan, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
The concept of philosophy and ethics in medical and nursing professions. Legal and moral aspects of intensive care and related topics. Philosophical and historical principles of medical and nursing ethics. Relevant current resources of medical and nursing ethics, ethic principles.Relationship between law and nursing ethics. Ethical committees. Ethical problems of life beginnings. Ethical problems of the end of life. Truth and lie and patients. Ethical problems in health care management. Ethics of research. Allocation of scarce resources and justice. https://moodle.upol.cz/course/view.php?id=6473#section-2

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
  • Homework for Teaching - 16 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
Together with Ethics the subject focuses on communication techniques with regard to moral aspects of profession performance and to communicative strategies employed in communication with individual age groups.
Together with Ethics the subject focuses on communication techniques with regard to moral aspects of profession performance and to communicative strategies employed in communication with individual age groups.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Dialog

Activve participation in seminars, discussion, home assignments. Completion of 80% of tasks solved in lessons or presentation of a task not solved (15 slides).
Recommended literature
  • Etický kodex práv pacientů.
  • Foster, I., R., Lasser, J. (2011). Professional ethics in midwifery practice. Mass.: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
  • Haškovcová, H. (1996). Práva pacientů. Havířov: Nakladatelství Aleny Krtilové.
  • HEŘMANOVÁ, J., VÁCHA, M., SVOBODOVÁ, H., ZVONÍČKOVÁ, M., SLOVÁK, J. (2012). Etika v ošetřovatelské praxi. Praha: Grada Publishing.
  • Huber, W. (2016). Etika : základní otázky života.. Praha : Vyšehrad.
  • Jankovský, J. (2018). Etika pro pomáhající profese.. Praha : Stanislav Juhaňák - Triton.
  • Maturkanič, P. (2018). Základy etiky : vybrané otázky z praktické filosofie : vysokoškolská učebnice.. Terezín : Vysoká škola aplikované psychologie.
  • Ptáček, R. a kol. (2011). Etika a komunikace v medicíně. Praha: Grada.
  • Ptáček, R., Bartůněk, P., a kol. (2017). Informovaný souhlas. Etické, právní, psychologické a klinické aspekty.. Praha : Mladá fronta.
  • Ptáček, R., Bartůněk, P., a kol. (2016). Kontroverze současné medicíny. Praha : Mladá fronta.
  • Ptáček, R., Bartůněk, P. (2014). Etické problémy medicíny na prahu 21. století. Praha: Grada.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences Study plan (Version): Paramedic (2019) Category: Health service 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter
Palacký University Olomouc, date of update: 14.06.2025 23:55. Data created for academic year 2024/2025