Ethics in Health Care and Nursing

Ethics in Health Care and Nursing

Research programme focuses on improving the ethical quality and safety of health care and nursing.

The research programme focuses on the value basis and ethics of nursing and health care, from the perspective of patients and population, different professionals, health care organisations, and society. Furthermore, learning and teaching of ethics, as well as ethical competence of professionals, is under investigation. Research represents different fields including for example caring ethics, clinical ethics, empirical ethics, and organizational ethics.

Research is conducted in national and international collaboration with researchers in different disciplines, experts in ethics, professionals and leaders in health care practice, as well as patients.

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Research areas

Heads of the Programme

Riitta Suhonen Professor
Mari Kangasniemi Professor
Minna Stolt Professor (acting)
Helena Leino-Kilpi Professor emerita and Nurse Director (part-time)