Buch, Englisch, 483 Seiten, Format (B × H): 236 mm x 192 mm, Gewicht: 896 g
A Nursing Perspective
Buch, Englisch, 483 Seiten, Format (B × H): 236 mm x 192 mm, Gewicht: 896 g
ISBN: 978-0-7295-4322-4
Verlag: Elsevier Australia
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.
- 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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Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Krankenpflege
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Pflegeforschung, Pflegemanagement
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Medizinische Ethik
Weitere Infos & Material
1.Professional standards and the requirement to be ethical
2.Ethics, bioethics and nursing ethics: some working defintions
3.Moral theory and the ethical practice of nursing4. 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
