An essential resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students and registered nurses to develop new insights and moral wisdom around ethical issues they will face in clinical practice. Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective, 6th Edition continues to set the standard for bioethical issues in nursing practice. As with previous editions, this highly respected text provides a comprehensive framework to assist students and registered nurses to understand the ethical challenges, obligations and responsibilities they will encounter in daily practice. Greater depth on ethical issues, particularly those concerning ethical conduct, unprofessional conduct, professional misconduct and 'morality politics' Case scenarios and critical questions that encourage students and registered nurses to reflect on key issues that relate to their own practice New chapters: - Ethics, dehumanisation and vulnerable populations - Professional obligations to report harmful behaviours with a focus on impaired practitioners, child abuse and elder abuse Introduces a new concept: 'cultural humility' Content on 'needs versus wants', 'the right not to be informed', palliative sedation, preventing ethical conflicts, the relationship between professional judgment and moral decision-making in nursing and health care contexts, and future ethical difficulties concerned with climate change, peak oil, pandemic influenza, antimicrobial resistance and health inequalities All chapters and references have been updated to reflect contemporary nursing practice, locally and globally
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Elsevier-Health Sciences Division
ISBN-10
0729542157
ISBN-13
9780729542159
eBay Product ID (ePID)
211880906
Product Key Features
Author
Megan-Jane Johnstone
Publication Name
Bioethics : a Nursing Perspective
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
514 Pages
Additional Product Features
Edition Number
6
Copyright Date
2016
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Nursing / Social, Ethical & Legal Issues, Ethics
Dewey Decimal
174.2
Dewey Edition
22
Genre
Medical
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