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HHV 501 Introduction to Health Care Ethics
This interdisciplinary course considers basic theories of ethics and principles of health care ethics, gives students experience applying two methods of ethical analysis of cases, and examines issues such as paternalism vs. enhancement of patients' autonomy, justice, beneficence, and nonmaleficence. (web -based only) [3-1-3]
HHV 502 Major Issues in Health Care Ethics
Focus of the course is on “End of Life—Ending Life” with topics such as advance directives, DNR's, withholding and withdrawing treatment, treatment decisions and ethics, PVS, brain death, euthanasia, allocation, etc. Both ethical and legal perspectives are considered. Prerequisite HHV 501. (web-based only) [3-1-3]
HHV 503 Seminar in Health Care Ethics
Students present a major seminar paper on an approved topic in clinical health care ethics, and lead discussion around the issue. Prerequisite HHV 502. (web-based only) [3-1-3]
HHV 504 Ethics in Health Care: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
This interdisciplinary course will introduce students to foundational theories of health care ethics, ethical decision-making frameworks, legal and professional standards in health care ethics, institutional and interprofessional ethical constraints, and major ethical issues facing health care professionals. Students will have the opportunity for case analysis and discussion with students from other professions with which they will some day be practicing. Course content will include lecture, on-line content, case analysis, and discussion. [2]
HHV 505 Ethics in Research
This web based course provides the student with an interactive format to discuss the researcher's responsibilities for conducting ethically sound scientific research as well as select ethical issues in research. Each student will have the opportunity to analyze an ethical issue as it relates to the student's research project or topic. [2]
HHV 510 Seminar in Health and Human Values I
Interdisciplinary seminar integrating the written, visual and performing arts with philosophical and clinical issues and approaches to health care. Includes Campbell Lectures each quarter taken. [v]
HHV 512 The Clinic and Ethics Classics
This course closely reads Aristotle, Kant, and Mill, asking two questions: What do the classical authors in ethics have to say to contemporary clinicans? What do contemporary clinicians have to say to those authors? One hour of this course may be offered online. [4-0-4]
HHV 520 Ethics for the Healthcare Professional
This four-week intensive course will examine a variety of ethical issues in health care encountered throughout the lifespan. A methodology for case analysis will be used drawing on examples from the participants' own clinical experiences. An ethics of care perspective will augment the traditional analytic approach by examining the characteristics of relationships in the health care context including the roles of power, empathy, suffering and other moral experiences and emotions. [2]
HHV 525 Narrative and Medicine
A characteristic of the human species is that we think in metaphors and learn through stories. In the midst of crises, persons construct stories that give meaning to events. This course is designed to focus on understanding how persons create meaning out of the experiences of disease and suffering. Through improvisational exercises, students discover how to be in tune with stories and their tellers. [v-v-v]
HHV 532 Introduction to Holistic Spiritual Assessment
In the context of a review of holistic approaches to patient assessment, this course provides an introduction to spiritual assessment. Several significant models for spiritual assessment are presented and evaluated. The models are applied with case studies and/or patient interviews. [3-0-3]
HHV 533 Theology of Pastoral Care
A seminar in which students study various theological approaches to pastoral care and formulate their own theology of the discipline. [2-0-2]
HHV 534 Suffering
Health care practitioners inevitably engage the issue of human suffering. Course examines the nature of suffering, the suffering of the healthier, approaches to living with suffering. [1]
HHV 535 Spirit/Mind/Body
Course examines research of faith and health outcomes, psychoneuro-immunology, mind/body concepts, complementary therapies, and an introduction to the practice of proven techniques for enhancing health through spirit/mind/body integration. [3-0-3]
HHV 541, 542, 543 Seminar in Theological Reflection I - III
Using a “story theology” model, students bring narratives from their own experience as well as from the experience of patients/clients to discern major theological themes. [1-1-1]
HHV 551, 552, 553 Clinical Practicum I - III
Supervised clinical experience in ethics in a setting appropriate to learning goals. Settings include Medical Intensive Care Unit, Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit and the Brain Injury Group, and Special Care Nursery. Each practicum addresses a basic theme of biomedical ethics: Autonomy (Practicum I), Beneficence and Nonmaleficence (Practicum II), and Justice (Practicum III). [2]
HHV 554 Clinical Practicum IV: Ethics Consultation
Students are paired with a working ethics consultant for rounds and general ethics coverage. Students begin writing ethics consultations, review cases, and examine readings pertaining to ethics consultat ion. [3]
HHV 581 Ethics in Medicine I
HHV 582 Ethics in Medicine II
HHV 583 Ethics in Medicine III
Course focuses on topics in medical ethics that are more complex and require a well-established knowledge base in basic principles. Small group discussions aim at fine-tuning students ability to discuss medical ethics at a more sophisticated level. Course builds upon principles and concepts taught in HHV 581 Ethics in Medicine I and HHV 582 Ethics in Medicine II, and expands range of topics to include: medical error, ethical issues in genetic testing and diagnosis, physician relations with the pharmaceutical industry, ethics and reproductive integrity, and medicine and spirituality. HHV 586 Reading and Research in Religion and Health
Individual projects under the supervision of faculty member.
HHV 598 Thesis in Health Care Ethics
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HHV 900 Independent Study
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