Ethical Issues in Nursing

by Hunt; GEOFFREY

• ISBN13: 9780415081450
• ISBN10: 0415081459
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1994-08-02
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book examines major ethical issues in nursing practice. Eschewing the abstract approaches of bioethics and medical ethics, it takes as its point of departure the difficulties nurses experience practicing within the confines of a bioethical model of health and illness and a hierarchical, technocratic health care system. The book's contributors discuss the role of the nurse in relation to issues of informed consent, privacy, dignity and confidentiality. The book also considers nursing accountability in relation to the contemporary Western health care system as a whole. New and critical essays examine the nature of professional codes, care, medical judgement, nursing research and the law. The contributors also deal openly and honestly with controversial issues faced by nurses such as euthanasia, the epidemiology of HIV and the care of the elderly.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Specific Issues	p. 19
Nursing and Informed Consent	p. 21
The Observation of Intimate Aspects of Care	p. 38
Choice and Risk in the Care of Elderly People	p. 55
Caring for Patients Who Cannot or Will Not Eat	p. 73
Disabled People and the Ethics of Nursing Research	p. 90
Ethical Issues in Hiv/Aids Epidemiology	p. 106
General Issues	p. 127
Nursing Accountability	p. 129
The Value of Codes of Conduct	p. 148
In the Patient's Best Interests	p. 164
Nursing and the Concept of Care	p. 181
'Medical Judgement' and the Right Time to Die	p. 198
Nurse Time as a Scarce Health Care Resource	p. 207
Bibliography	p. 218
Index	p. 227
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