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Bioethics : a nursing perspective / Megan-Jane Johnstone, PhD, BA, RN.

By: Publisher: Chatswood, NSW : Elsevier, [2019]Edition: 7eDescription: xvii, 464 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780729543224
  • 0729543226
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Bioethics.DDC classification:
  • 174.2 .J73 2019 7thed.
LOC classification:
  • RT85 .J65 2019
NLM classification:
  • 2019 H-353
  • WY 85
Contents:
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
Summary: "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 en-of-life ethics." --Publisher's description
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Print Materials Main Library Nursing Non-fiction 174.2 .J73 2019 7thed. (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0123961

Includes bibliographical references and index

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

"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 en-of-life ethics." --Publisher's description

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