ECTS credits ECTS credits: 2
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 34 Hours of tutorials: 2 Expository Class: 6 Interactive Classroom: 8 Total: 50
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Forensic Science, Pathological Anatomy, Gynaecology and Obstetrics and Paediatrics, Psychiatry, Radiology, Public Health, Nursing and Medicine
Areas: Legal and Forensic Medicine, Nursing
Center Faculty of Nursing
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
The aims of the course is to endow students with the necessary legal and ethical knowledge to administer professional assistance and provide training in research and management within a nursing environment. At the end of the course students will have an awareness of the limits of their profession and patients’ rights
and be able to distinguish and critically evaluate situations clearly under their legal responsibility from other scenarios where their actions depend only on ethical aspects.
Course work will involve problem solving , dealing with situations likely to arise in day to day hospital management and research. To do this we examine situations from a different perspective to the medical/ nursing assistance through an analysis of facts, their individualization , and reflections from the standpoint
of the law and bioethics on limits of responsibility, isolating and characterizing a possible problem and trying to offer a solution.
We also try to impart an ethical awareness to professional activity in all aspects, basically assistance, management and research.. This requires a certain critical capacity, with class interaction and the design of tasks related to the syllabus.
1. ETHICS AND THE LAW. LEGAL AND ETHICAL REGULATIONS.
2. GALICIAN HEALTH SERVICE: STUCTURAL ORGANISATION. FIRST AID AND SPECIALIST AID. CONCEPT AND STRUCTURE . AGENCIES AND RESPOSIBILITIES
3. PRINCIPALS OF BIOETHICS
4. CODE OF ETHICS FOR HEALCARE WORKERS
5. CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTIONWITHIN THE LEGAL ORDER
6. PATIENTS’ RIGHTS
7. CLINICAL RECORDS.
8. INFORMED CONSENT
9. DATA PROTECTION AND CONFIDENCIALITY
10. ETHICAL COMMITTEES. ETHICAL RESEARCH COMMITTEES. ETHICAL HEALTHCARE. NATIONAL COMMITTEES OF ETHIC
11. ABORTION
12 . INFERTILITY TREATMENT
13. TERMINAL DISEASE. EUTHANASIA
14. ORGAN TRANSPLANTS
15. RESEARCH: INVASIVE PROCEDURES IN HUMAN BEINGS. PRINCIPLES AND REQUIREMENTS OF INFORMATION AND CONSENT
16. REASEARCH DURING PREGNANCY REASEARCH OF MINORS OR INCAPACITATED PATIENTS.
17. DONATION OF EMBRYOS AND HUMAN FETUS. RESEARCH WITH EMBRYONIC BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES
18. INFRINGEMENTS AND PENALTIES. PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY. ADMINISTRATIVE INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
Arroyo MP et al. Ética y legislación en Enfermería. Ed. Interamericana Mc Graw-Hill, Madrid, 1997
Beauchamp, TL; Childress J F; Principios de ética biomédica. Masson, Barcelona, 1999
Código Deontológico de la Enfermería Española
Convenio para la Protección de los Derechos Humanos y la Dignidad del Ser Humano con Respecto a las Aplicaciones de la Biología y la Medicina. Consejo de Europa, 1997. Ratificación del Convenio en BOE n. 251 de 20/10/1999
Declaración de Helsinki. http://www.wma.net/s/ethicsunit/helsinki.htm. Asociación Médica Mundial, 2004
Emanuel EJ (ed). Ethical and regulatory aspects of clinical research: Readings and commentary. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2003
Gisbert JA Medicina Legal y Toxicología. 6 ed. Masson SA, Barcelona, 2004
Gracia D. ; Júdez J. Ética en la práctica clínica. Triacastela. Madrid, 2004
Gracia D. Fundamentos de Bioética. Eudema, Madrid, 1989
Lei 41/2002, estatal
Ley 3/2001, 3/2005, 8/2008 Xunta de Galicia
- Have the requisite professional legal and ethical skills to act in a wide range of scenarios. Be aware of professional limits, the rights of patients and all those requirements which are indispensible for managing an investigation
- Differentiate , within the professional framework, between those situations which fall under the rule of law and those in which the only guideline are ethical concerns.
- Assess the work of his profession from an ethical and/or legal standpoint.
- Apply rigorously the most important legal standards of his/her profession.
The contents are made up of 18 topics, some of which will be presented by teachers in presential or non presential classes according to the “Guidelines for or development of safe presential teaching, Course 2020-2021” and as “Bases for or development dunha safe classroom teaching. Course 2020-2021” and the rest must be prepared by the students autonomously.
The theoretical classes taught during the course will range from theoretical presentation to solving real problems affected by legal and ethical considerations. Also, throughout the course, the same concepts will be presented from different perspectives.
A compulsory exercise in the course is a written presentation of a topic not taught in classwork. This is designed to stimulate autonomous learning and assume responsibility. This written work should be handed in 15 days before the official date of the exam.
Active participation in face to face classes implies interaction with the teaching staff, asking and responding to questions and using knowledge acquired previously in the course as stepping stones
Class attendance is compulsory, and the number of justified absences is controlled by the Academic Committee.
The valuation method will be carried out by:
- Final exam which accounts for 70% of the final grade
- Work handed in during the course and active participation in class will account for 30%.
Evidently, a pass grade can be achieved simply by sitting the final exam, although it is easier and more beneficial by means of regular attendance and participation in all the teaching activities.
In exceptional circumstances, by personal petition, and under duly justified circumstances, the assessment can be carried out by other means.
The course provides 2 ECTS credits , equivalent to a student workload of 50 hours .
The distribution of this workload is shown in the following table.
Class Attendance 8
Written work, tutorials, exams, 20
Autonomous Learning 22
Doubts arise mainly from the use of legal terminology. After each topic, or related topic, you should look over the notes taken down in class and formulate queries to bring up in class or tutorials, finding a way to relate them to the skills you want to obtain. Analyse current situations in hospital scenarios in the light of knowledge acquired during the course, trying to observe them from a different viewpoint.
"In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the one set out in the Regulations for the evaluation of the academic performance of students and the review of qualifications will be applied."
ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY
The delivery of works in digital format will be promoted. If a printed work is requested for the subject, either individual or group, the following indications will be taken into account:
- Avoid plastic caps or other unnecessary outer wraps.
- Whenever possible, use staples instead of spirals.
- "Ink-saving" quality double-sided printing.
- Do not use blank sheets as chapter or part dividers.
- Avoid annexes that do not have direct reference to the topics covered in the papers.
GENDER PERSPECTIVE
In view of the criteria of gender equality in the university environment, it is recommended to use non-sexist language both in daily classroom work and in requested academic work. The information can be obtained at the following link:
http://www.usc.es/export/sites/default/gl/servizos/oix/descargas/lingua…
Other measures will also be used to apply the gender approach in teaching, such as the recognition and consideration of the particular situations of students, the promotion of an egalitarian climate of interactions, the egalitarian organization of groups whenever possible, the deployment of scientific contributions and techniques. of women in the subject and of the students themselves, and the introduction of gender as a category of analysis of students' work.
PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION
The regulations on privacy and protection of personal data available at https://www.usc.gal/gl/normativa/protecciondatos/index.html will be followed.
MOBILE PHONE USE
The use of the mobile phone in the classroom is restricted to its use as a work tool, following the instructions given by the teacher, holding the student responsible for the legal and academic consequences that may arise from improper use of it.
Jose Ignacio Muñoz Barus
Coordinador/a- Department
- Forensic Science, Pathological Anatomy, Gynaecology and Obstetrics and Paediatrics
- Area
- Legal and Forensic Medicine
- Phone
- 881812325
- joseignacio.munoz.barus [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Lucia Ordoñez Mayan
- Department
- Psychiatry, Radiology, Public Health, Nursing and Medicine
- Area
- Nursing
- lucia.ordonez.mayan [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: LOU (Organic Law for Universities) PhD Assistant Professor
Julio Manuel Maside Rodriguez
- Department
- Forensic Science, Pathological Anatomy, Gynaecology and Obstetrics and Paediatrics
- Area
- Legal and Forensic Medicine
- Phone
- 881815411
- xulio.maside [at] usc.gal
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
Maria Jesús Tabernero Duque
- Department
- Forensic Science, Pathological Anatomy, Gynaecology and Obstetrics and Paediatrics
- Area
- Legal and Forensic Medicine
- Phone
- 881812451
- mj.tabernero [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
| Monday | |||
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| 16:00-20:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Galician, Spanish | Classroom 2.03 |
| Tuesday | |||
| 16:00-20:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish, Galician | Classroom 2.03 |
| Wednesday | |||
| 16:00-18:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Galician, Spanish | Classroom 2.03 |
| 01.15.2025 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 2.03 |
| 06.27.2025 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Laboratory 4.06 |