Healthcare & Nursing
Course · 5 lessons · 59 min
Legal and Ethical Principles in Nursing Practice
After this course you can apply ethical theories, professional values, and tort principles to nursing scenarios and answer NCLEX questions on ethics and legal practice.
By the end, you'll be able to
- Ethical Theories and Principles in Healthcare: NCLEX-Focused Guide for BSN Students
- Values, Moral Development, and Ethics in Nursing Practice
- Nursing Ethics in Action: Values, Code, and Hard Choices
- From Bedside Patterns to Policy Action
Curriculum
5 lessons- 01Ethical Theories and Principles in Healthcare: NCLEX-Focused Guide for BSN StudentsThis episode for NSG4070 explores the major ethical theories and core ethical principles that guide nursing practice, tailored for BSN students preparing for NCLEX. We break down utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics, and moral particularism in plain language and connect them to everyday nursing decisions. Then we walk through the foundational ethical principles in healthcare—autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice, veracity, fidelity, and confidentiality—with bedside-focused examples.Throughout the episode you’ll hear NCLEX-style scenarios and test-taking tips to help you recognize which ethical principle is being tested, prioritize safe responses, and avoid common trap answers on exam questions about informed consent, refusal of treatment, allocation of resources, and documentation. This concise, 10-minute review is designed to reinforce what you’re learning in NSG4070 Legal and Ethics and give you practical tools for both the classroom and the clinical setting.16 min
- 02Values, Moral Development, and Ethics in Nursing PracticeThis episode for NSG4070 Legal and Ethics explores how personal values, moral development, and ethical theories show up in real-world nursing practice and on the NCLEX. Hosts Heather Murphy and Caitlin Hope break down key definitions, discuss moral distress and moral agency, and connect concepts like values clarification and Pender's Health Promotion Model to practical bedside scenarios.13 min
- 03Nursing Ethics in Action: Values, Code, and Hard ChoicesExplore how nursing ethics shapes bedside care, professional identity, and advocacy through the ANA code of ethics, accountability, and the role of compassion in everyday decisions. The episode also breaks down a practical ethical decision-making process nurses can use when facing uncertainty, conflict, and high-stakes patient care situations.7 min
- 04From Bedside Patterns to Policy ActionThis episode explores how nurses recognize recurring patient problems, turn them into specific policy questions, and test practical fixes like teach-back and discharge checklists. It also breaks down the difference between lobbying and campaigning, showing how advocacy grows from everyday bedside observations.13 min
- 05Torts, Professional Relationships, and Practice Issues for Senior Nursing StudentsWe break down the difference between negligence and malpractice, then hit the NCLEX-style clues for intentional torts like assault, battery, false imprisonment, invasion of privacy, fraud, and defamation.Then we shift to workplace civility, bullying, and the key documents and ethical decisions nurses need when conflict or end-of-life concerns arise.11 min
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NSG4070 Legal and Ethics
Summary of legal and ethics issues in health care
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