Study Guide

Objective

After completing this study unit:
-You are able to consider how ethical principles come true in situations related to clinical practice (working life)
-You have developed sensitivity to find alternative justified solutions for ethically challencing situations in clinical practice
-You have found ways to act ethically in your profession although you don´t agree with your client´s or patient´s values
-You have deepened your understanding of the shared professional values and ethical bases in social and health care sector to ensure the good care and service for your clients or patients

Content

-Ethically challencing situations in clinical practice (working life) f.eg related to multicultural, collegiality, equailyty, privacy and autonomy
-Ethical professional values and principles
-The good care and service for client or patient from the ethical point of view
-Own experiences and peer support

Materials

-The National Advisory Board on Social Welfare and Health Care Ethics ETENE
https://etene.fi/en/frontpage (link)
-Ethical grounds for the social and heath care field, 2012
https://etene.fi/documents/1429646/1571616/Publication+34+Ethical+grounds+for+the+social+and+health+care+field%2C+2012.pdf/a3f0ab6b-8e42-4045-865f-466f0dae3d8e/Publication+34+Ethical+grounds+for+the+social+and+health+care+field%2C+2012.pdf.pdf (link)

Teaching methods

100 % online

International connections

Orientation to the course
CASE-method
Read the guided material
Peer support
Self-evaluation
Written or voice feedback from the responsible teacher = tutor after the course
Tutor can be reached by email and virtually via Skype for Business - connect during voluntary "one hour of questions" ; the timetable (once a month) will be published after the course has began..

Completion alternatives

You can choose your own timetable to do this course online in Optima between 23.9.- 8.12.2019. Contact the responsible teacher by email, when you have done the course, so you will have your evaluation during the next two weeks.

Student workload

Overall 135 hours/ 5 credits
Orientation 10 h
Reading guided linked material and searching new material 40 h
Learning diary 45 h
Reflection and self-evaluation 25 h
Peer support 15 h
Different CASE-methods, where students concentrate to ethical dilemmas and try to find the best possible solutions that they also must justify. CASES will be from everyday working life, experiences of participants own or person you know in personal life. There is also cases that teacher presents in written or drawned or video format. Their aim is to be as an activator to the learning process. The CASEs come f. eg from the themes: multi-culture, collegiality, equailyty, privacy and autonomy. Self-evaluation and peersupport will be excecuted.
MediaLoop (looking for ethical issues from social and health care system in online news, conversation areas in Internet, social media etc and reflect them according to guiding questions.Ethical principles and values of different professions in social welfare and health care and other theoretical background to be able to justify own opinions. Sharing experiences in conversation area (Optima). Feedback.

Content scheduling

-Ethically challencing situations in clinical practice (working life) f.eg related to multicultural, collegiality, equailyty, privacy and autonomy
-Ethical professional values and principles
-The good care and service for client or patient from the ethical point of view
-Own experiences and peer support

Further information

-20 degree students
-5 open University of Applied Science Student

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment methods and criteria

-Learning diary
-You will have written or voice feedback from the tutor in two weeks after the course

Assessment criteria, fail (0)

You are not able to consider how ethical principles come true in situations related to clinical practice (working life).
-You can´t find or justify alternative solutions for ethically challencing situations in clinical practice.
-You can´t describe your understanding of the shared professional values and ethical bases in social and health care sector
-You haven´t completed your learning diary

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

You can consider how ethical principles come true in situations related to clinical practice (working life) in quite narrow point of view
-You can find alternative solutions for ethically challencing situations in clinical practice, but justifiying is poor
-You can describe some ideas how your understanding of the shared professional values and ethical bases in social and health care
You have completed your learning diary during the course period

Assessment criteria, good (3-4)

You can consider how ethical principles come true in situations related to clinical practice (working life) in quite broad point of view
-You can find alternative solutions for ethically challencing situations in clinical practice, and justifiy them based on literature
-You can describe many ideas how your understanding has deepened of the shared professional values and ethicalbases in social and health care
You have completed your learning diary during the course period

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

-You are able to evaluate how ethical principles come true in situations related to clinical practice (working life).
-You have developed sensitivity to find alternative justified solutions for ethically challencing situations in clinical practice.
-You can show how you have deepened your understanding of the shared professional values and ethical bases in social and health care sector to ensure the good care and service for your clients or patients.
-You have completed your learning diary during the course period