Now in its eighth edition, Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective provides practical guidance on the ethical issues you might come across in nursing practice, with real-world examples that help to bring this important subject to life. Author Dr Megan-Jane Johnstone AO, Australia's foremost nursing ethics scholar, provides a comprehensive framework for negotiating the ethical challenges, obligations and responsibilities you might face. The text is engaging and easy to follow, and has been fully updated to reflect current issues in health care such as nurse practitioner assisted dying, pandemic ethics, and the moral costs of misinformation and medical conspiracy theories. . This book is a suitable companion to the law and ethics components of both undergraduate and postgraduate nursing studies, and is relevant for all nurses who encounter ethical problems in their everyday practice. INDICE: 1. Professional standards and the requirement to be ethical2. Ethics, bioethics and nursing ethics: some working definitions3. Moral theory and the ethical practice of nursing4. Moral problems in nursing and health care contexts5. Moral decision making in nursing and health care 6. Cross-cultural ethics and the ethical practice of nursing 7. Ethics, dehumanisation and vulnerable populations8. Patients' rights to and in health care9. Ethical issues in mental health care10. Ethical issues in end-of-life care11. The moral politics of abortion and euthanasia12. Professional judgment, moral quandaries and taking 'appropriate action'13. Professional obligations to report harmful behaviours: risks to patient safety, child abuse and elder abuse14. Pandemic ethics15. Ethics and public health emergencies: climate change, AMR, health inequities, and emergency preparedness
- ISBN: 978-0-7295-4428-3
- Editorial: Elsevier
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 483
- Fecha Publicación: 11/12/2022
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés