Written by Australia’s foremost nursing ethics scholar, Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective comprehensibly addresses the ethical challenges, obligations and responsibilities nurses will encounter in practice.
With a strong emphasis on the principle ...view more
Written by Australia’s foremost nursing ethics scholar, Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective comprehensibly addresses the ethical challenges, obligations and responsibilities nurses will encounter in practice.
With a strong emphasis on the principles and standards of human rights and social justice, the 7th edition examines the spectrum of bioethical issues in health care with a focus on patients’ rights, cross-cultural ethics, vulnerability ethics, mental health ethics, professional conduct, patient safety and end-of-life ethics.
Written by Australia’s foremost nursing ethics scholar, Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective comprehensibly addresses the ethical challenges, obligations and responsibilities nurses will encounter in practice.
With a strong emphasis on the principles and standards of human rights and social justice, the 7th edition examines the spectrum of bioethical issues in health care with a focus on patients’ rights, cross-cultural ethics, vulnerability ethics, mental health ethics, professional conduct, patient safety and end-of-life ethics.
Key Features
Coverage of the moral terrain of everyday practice, including:
Codes of Ethics and Codes of Conduct
End-of-life care, directives and legislation
Moral disengagement
Prejudice, discrimination and vulnerable populations
Elder abuse and child abuse
Future nursing ethics challenges
Case scenarios and critical questions to encourage reflection on key issues in practice
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Author Information
By Megan-Jane Johnstone, AO, PhD, BA, RN, Independent Scholar and Formerly Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia.
1.Professional standards and the requirement to be ethical 2.Ethics, bioethics and nursing ethics: some working definitions 3.Moral theory and the ethical practice of nursing 4.Cross cultural ethics and the ethical practice of nursing 5.Moral problems and moral decision-making in nursing and health care contexts 6.Ethics, dehumanisation and vulnerable populations 7.Patients’ rights to and in health care 8.Ethical issues in mental health care 9.Ethical issues in end-of-life care 10.The moral politics of abortion and euthanasia 11.Professional judgment, moral quandaries and taking ‘appropriate action’ 12.Professional obligations to report harmful behaviours: risks to patient safety, child abuse and elder abuse 13.Nursing ethics futures – challenges in the 21st century
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