Nursing Ethics

by Thompson, Ian E.

• ISBN13: 9780443101380
• ISBN10: 0443101388
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-01
• Publisher: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE

Summary

This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. The authors have developed a holistic approach that explores: ethics in hospital and community settings, inter-disciplinary teamwork, ward and hospital management, nursing research, performance management and the political ethics of nursing administration, health service re-structuring and reform. The content has been substantially revised for this edition and significant new material added to reflect developments in theory and practice. covers a wide range of ethical issues - much more than just clinical dilemmas and decision-making skills a down-to-earth and practical approach to applied ethics user-friendly layout material on moral theory kept to a minimum (but dealt with thoroughly at the end of the book) focuses on ethical issues in nursing and case studies taken from nursing practice i.e. the concrete concerns of nurses and other front-line workers pedagogical features include: Chapter aims and learning outcomes, end notes and further reading for possible essay, tutorial and project topics also useful as a general work of reference on ethic in health care An up-to-date analysis of professions in the context of modernity, to enable health professionals to make sense of global cultural & social developments An analysis of the ethics of evidence-based practice An examination of professional accountability and ethics in performance management to help practitioners/managers understand the ethical basis of management useful web links and teaching notes on a dedicated website: http://evolve.elsevier.com/Thompson/nursingethics/

Author Biography

Dorothy Horsburgh is Lecturer, School of Acute and Continuing Care Nursing, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK.

Table of Contents

The social context of nursing values

Moral issues in nursing and the ethics of nursing care

Becoming and being a nurse

Responsibility and accountability in nursing

Power-sharing and personal values in nursing ethics

Practical applications of nursing ethics

What are the key moral issues in health care?

Moral dilemmas in direct nurse-patient relationships

Moral dilemmas in nursing groups of patients

Ethics in health policy and administration

Nurses and society: responsibility for managing resources

Nurses and society: agents of health and a social policy

decision-making a moral theory

Making moral decisions and being able to justify them

The relevance of moral theory: justifying our moral beliefs

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