Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective, Edition 6
Nov 2015 · Elsevier Health Sciences
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An essential resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students and registered nurses to develop new insights and moral wisdom around ethical issues they will face in clinical practice. Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective, 6th Edition continues to set the standard for bioethical issues in nursing practice.As with previous editions, this highly respected text provides a comprehensive framework to assist students and registered nurses to understand the ethical challenges, obligations and responsibilities they will encounter in daily practice. - Greater depth on ethical issues, particularly those concerned with ethical conduct, unprofessional conduct and professional misconduct and 'morality politics' - Case scenarios and critical questions to encourage students and registered nurses to reflect on key issues that relate to their own practice - New chapters:- Ethics, dehumanisation and vulnerable populations- Professional obligations to report harmful behaviours with a focus on impaired practitioners, child abuse and elder abuse - Introduces a new concept: 'cultural humility' - Content on 'needs versus wants', 'the right not to be informed', palliative sedation, preventing ethical conflicts, the relationship between professional judgment and moral decision-making in nursing and health care contexts, and future ethical difficulties concerned with climate change, peak oil, pandemic influenza, antimicrobial resistance and health inequalities - All chapters and references have been updated to reflect contemporary nursing practice, locally and globally
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