Conference At 3rd Faculty of Medicine Discussed Ethics in Patient Care












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            The national conference for non-medical professions in healthcare called “Ethics in Patien

            place on October 22 at the Department of Nursing of the 3rd Faculty of Medicine. In the pa
            auditorium, six experts from the 3rd Faculty of Medicine presents their talks on the follo
            nurses and responsibility, legal representation of patients in practice, nurses and ethics

            care, suffering as viewed by ethics, ethics of chronic disease care and teaching respect t
            Co-organizer of the conference and a doctoral student at the Department of Ethics of the 3
            Medicine, Ms. Hana Svobodová, shared her insights about the role of ethics in nursing.  
                                                                                                      
            Can you introduce the conference? Who is it primarily aimed at?                           
            This conference is a part of the IGA project, which should result in                      
            a textbook of ethics in nursing. Most participants at the conference                      
                                                                                                      
            are nurses. The Department of Nursing has been focusing on ethics in                      
            nursing for several years now, as we try to look at the topic from the                    
            perspective of non-medical fields. Medical ethics is under sufficient                     
                                                                                                      
            scrutiny. But problems encountered by nurses are just as important. The                   
            driving force behind the conference is Jana Heřmanová, a doctoral student                 
            of medical ethics. Today, she has presented the research we conducted on                  
                                                                                                      
            ethics in nursing.                                                                        
                                                                                                      
                                                                                                      
                                                                                                      

            To what extent are topics related to ethics well-established at faculties of medicine?

            It has been a full-fledged class for several years now. At our faculty, ethics classes wer
            thanks to Dr. Jiří Šimek, the head of the former Department of Medical Ethics and Nursing,
            a huge interest in ethics. Those of us who were working under him were naturally inspired 

            Ethics was later included in the nursing programmes. Each non-medical programme at our fac
            ethics classes.
            Why is ethics so important even for non-medical professions?

            Because nurses are always in the immediate contact with the patients. They work with them 
            Patients may have questions that the doctor does not manage to answer or that do not conce
            questions may be related to the pain and suffering or to the particular choices that have 

            the treatment. The nurse must be prepared for these questions. In ethics in nursing, we al
            topics of medical ethics, such as dying and euthanasia and usage of cell stems and embryos
            discuss topics such as human dignity, respect to the patient as a human being and responsi

            We seek inspiration throughout the world and strive to have as up-to-date and quality clas
             (Lucie Kettnerová)
            Translation: Jaroslav Švelch