Nursing ethics
Subtitle: Irish cases and concerns
By: Dolores Dooley and Joan McCarthy
Contributors: McCarthy, Joan
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780717135769
Subjects: Nursing ethics; Nursing Ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-306) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- P. Anne Scott -- Sect. 1.; title: Patient-nurse relationship -- -- 1.; title: Respecting patient autonomy -- -- 2.; title: Autonomy and vulnerability -- -- 3.; title: Truthful conversations -- -- 4.; title: Advocacy and integrity -- -- 5.; title: Respecting patient confidentiality -- -- 6.; title: The confidentiality process -- -- 7.; title: Informed consent to nursing and medical procedures -- -- 8.; title: Informed consent in research -- -- Sect. 2.; title: Living and dying -- -- 9.; title: Abortion and moral space -- -- 10.; title: Personal conscience and public policy -- -- 11.; title: Selecting for sex -- -- 12.; title: Surrogate pregnancy -- -- 13.; title: Companying the chronically ill and dying -- -- 14.; title: Falling down the slippery slope -- -- Sect. 3.; title: Resources, justice and accountability -- -- 15.; title: Allocating scarce health resources -- -- 16.; title: Accountability and whistle-blowing -- -- 17.; title: The right to strike? -- -- Sect. 4.; title: Nursing ethically -- -- 18.; title: Traditional moral theories -- -- 19.; title: Contemporary moral theories -- -- App. 1.; title: Gillick competence -- -- App. 2.; title: The history of abortion in Ireland : 1861 to present -- -- App. 3a.; title: Standard form of a general advance directive -- -- App. 3b.; title: Health-care advance directive for Jehovah's Witnesses -- -- App. 4.; title: Statements following Supreme Court decision in 'Ward of Court' case (1995).