Ethics in Nursing Practice A Guide to Ethical Decision Making

by Fry, Sara; Johnstone, Megan-Jane

• ISBN13: 9781405160520
• ISBN10: 1405160527
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-23
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Every day nurses are required to make ethical decisions in the course of caring for their patients.Ethics in Nursing Practiceprovides the background necessary to understand ethical decision making and its implications for patient care. The authors focus on the individual nurse's responsibilities, as well as considering the wider issues affecting patients, colleagues and society as a whole. This third edition is fully updated, and takes into account recent changes in ICN position statements, WHO documents, as well as addressing current issues in healthcare, such as providing for the health and care needs of refugees and asylum seekers, bioethics and the enforcement of nursing codes.

Author Biography

Sara T. Fry Formerly Henry R. Luce Professor of Nursing Ethics Boston College School of Nursing Chestnut Hill, MA, USA Megan-Jane Johnstone Professor of Nursing Division of Nursing and Midwifery School of Health Sciences RMIT University Melbourne, Australia

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. v
Preface	p. vii
Preparation for ethical decision making	p. 1
Value formation and value conflict	p. 5
The nature of values	p. 6
Cultural values	p. 7
Religious values	p. 9
Personal values	p. 9
Professional values	p. 10
Value conflicts	p. 11
The discipline of ethics	p. 15
Traditional western ethics	p. 16
Theories of ethics	p. 20
Principles of ethics	p. 22
Beyond traditional theories of ethics and principlism	p. 26
Ethics and the law	p. 32
Bioethics	p. 33
Ethical concepts for nursing practice	p. 39
Advocacy	p. 39
Accountability/responsibility	p. 41
Cooperation	p. 43
Caring	p. 45
Consensus on the concepts	p. 46
Standards of ethical conduct in nursing	p. 51
Early standards for nurses' ethical behaviours	p. 51
Development of nursing codes of ethics	p. 53
Purpose of a code of ethics	p. 54
Common themes in nursing codes of ethics	p. 54
Application and enforcement of nursing codes of ethics	p. 56
Ethical analysis and decision making in nursing practice	p. 59
Models for ethical analysis and decision making	p. 59
A model for ethical analysis and decision making in nursing practice	p. 62
Taking ethical action	p. 65
Ethical responsibilities of the nurse	p. 67
Promoting health	p. 69
Preventing illness	p. 81
Restoring health	p. 97
Alleviating suffering	p. 109
Applying ethics to nursing practice	p. 121
Nurses and people	p. 123
Serving people who need nursing care	p. 123
Individual versus collective good	p. 127
Respecting values, customs and spiritual beliefs	p. 129
Protecting human rights and dignity	p. 132
Nurses and practice	p. 139
Allocating nursing care	p. 140
Delegating nursing authority to others	p. 142
Accepting responsibility for nursing care	p. 148
Nurses and the profession	p. 153
Implementing desirable standards of nursing practice and nursing education	p. 154
Participating in research involving human participants	p. 156
Equitable social and economic working conditions in nursing	p. 162
Nurses and co-workers	p. 169
Cooperating with physicians	p. 170
Cooperating with nurses and other co-workers	p. 172
Reporting incompetent nursing care	p. 178
Teaching ethics to nurses	p. 185
Taking moral action	p. 197
Glossary	p. 205
ICN Code of Ethics	p. 211
Index	p. 219
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