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. INDICE: 1.Professional standards and the requirement to be ethical2.Ethics, bioethics and nursing ethics: some working defintions3.Moral theory and the ethical practice of nursing4. Cross cultural ethics and the ethical practice of nursing5.Moral problems and moral decision-making in nursing and health care contexts6.Ethics, dehumanisation and vulnerable populations7.Patients' rights to and in health care8.Ethical issues in mental health care9.Ethical issues in end-of-life care 10.The moral politics of abortion and euthanasia11.Professional judgment, moral quandaries and taking 'appropriate action'12.Professional obligations to report harmful behaviours: risks to patient safety, child abuse and elder abuse13.Nursing ethics futures - challenges in the 21st century
- ISBN: 978-0-7295-4322-4
- Editorial: Elsevier
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 483
- Fecha Publicación: 26/06/2019
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés