Ethics in Nursing Practice: A Guide to Ethical Decision Making, 2nd Edition

by Sara Fry; Megan-Jane Johnstone

• ISBN13: 9780632059355
• ISBN10: 0632059354
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The International Council of Nurses is an internationally recognised body that considers nursing issues in detail before putting forward best practice. .This publication from the ICN draws upon everyday ethical dilemmas in nursing practice and responds to the realities of nursing and health care in a changing society. It includes the ICN's reviewed Guidelines for Nursing Research and promotes international standards for individual nurses, regulatory bodies and National Boards. This new edition provides the background theory necessary to understand ethical decision making, focusing on the individual nurse's responsibilities - promoting health, preventing illness, restoring health and alleviating suffering - and looking at the wider issues in relation to patients, colleagues and society as a whole.

Table of Contents

Foreword	viii
Preface	ix
Part 1 Partparation for ethical decision making	1	(64)
Value formation and value conflict	4	(10)
The nature of values	5	(2)
Cultural values	7	(1)
Religious values	8	(1)
Personal values	9	(1)
Professional values	9	(1)
Values conflicts	10	(4)
The discipline of ethics	14	(23)
Traditional ethics	15	(4)
Theories of ethics	19	(2)
Principles of ethics	21	(5)
Beyond traditional theories of ethics and principlism	26	(5)
Ethics and the law	31	(1)
Biotheics	32	(5)
Ethical concepts for nursing practice	37	(11)
Advocacy	37	(2)
Accountability/responsibility	39	(1)
Cooperation	40	(1)
Caring	41	(2)
Consensus on the concepts	43	(5)
Standards for ethical behaviour	48	(7)
Early standards for nurses' ethical behaviours	48	(2)
Development of nursing codes of ethics	50	(1)
Functions of a code of ethics	50	(1)
Common themes in nursing codes of ethics	51	(2)
Application and enforcement of nursing codes of ethics	53	(2)
Ethical analysis and decision making in nursing practice	55	(10)
Models for ethical analysis and decision making	55	(3)
A model for ethical analysis and decision making in nursing practice	58	(3)
Taking ethical action	61	(4)
Part 2 Ethical responsibilities of the nurse	65	(42)
Promoting health	67	(11)
Preventing illness	78	(11)
Restoring health	89	(9)
Alleviating suffering	98	(9)
Part 3 Applying ethics to nursing practice	107	(55)
Nurses and people	109	(15)
Serving people who need nursing care	109	(4)
Individual versus collective good	113	(2)
Respecting values, customs and spiritual beliefs	115	(3)
Protecting human rights and dignity	118	(6)
Nurses and practice	124	(12)
Allocating nursing care	124	(3)
Delegating nursing authority to others	127	(5)
Accepting responsibility for nursing care	132	(4)
Nurses and the profession	136	(12)
Implementing desirable standards of nursing practices and nursing education	137	(1)
Participating in research involving human subjects	138	(5)
Equitable social and economic working conditions in nursing	143	(5)
Nurses and co-workers	148	(14)
Cooperating with physicians	149	(2)
Cooperating with nurses and other co-workers	151	(6)
Reporting incompetent nursing care	157	(5)
Appendix 1 Teaching ethics to nurses	162	(11)
Appendix 2 Taking moral action	173	(7)
Appendix 3 Glossary	180	(7)
Appendix 4 Selected bibliography	187	(20)
Appendix 5 ICN Code of Ethics	207	(8)
Index	215