Bioethics : a nursing perspective / Megan-Jane Johnstone
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TextPublisher: Chatswood, NSW : Elsevier, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Edition: 7eDescription: xvii, 464 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780729543224
- 0729543226
- 174.2 JOH 23
Contents:
Summary: "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." -- Provided by publisher.
Professional standards and the requirement to be ethical -- Ethics, bioethics and nursing ethics: some working definitions -- Moral theory and the ethical practice of nursing -- Cross-cultural ethics and the ethical practice of nursing -- Moral problems and moral decision-making in nursing and health care contexts -- Ethics dehumanisation and vulnerable populations -- Patients rights to and in health care -- Ethical issues in mental health care -- Ethical issues in end-of life care -- The moral politics of abortion and euthanasia -- Professional judgment, moral quandaries and taking appropriate action -- Professional obligations to report harmful behaviours: risks to patient safety, child abuse and elder abuse -- Nursing ethics futures - challenges in the 21st century.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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." -- Provided by publisher.