Nursing ethics
Edition: 4th edition
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Edinburgh; New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780443061479
Subjects: Medical ethics; Nursing; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Sociology; Ethics; Nursing - Issues; Medical / Nursing / Issues; Ethics, Nursing; Nursing ethics
Table of contents: title: SECTION 1: The social context of nursing values.; title: 1. Moral issues in nursing and the ethics of nursing care.; title: 2. Becoming and being a nurse.; title: 3. Responsibility and accountability in nursing.; title: 4. Power-sharing and personal values in nursing ethics.; title: SECTION 2: Practical applications of nursing ethics.; title: 5. What are the key moral issues in health care?; title: 6. Moral dilemmas in direct nurse-patient relationships.; title: 7. Moral dilemmas in nursing groups of patients.; title: SECTION3: Ethics in health policy and administration.; title: 8. Nurses and society: responsibility for managing resources.; title: 9. Nurses and society: agents of health and a social policy.; title: SECTION4: decision-making a moral theory.; title: 10. Making moral decisions and being able to justify them.; title: 11. The relevance of moral theory: justifying our moral beliefs