Nursing Ethics
Irish Cases and Concerns
2nd Edition
Published on 30. March 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-7171-4986-5 (ISBN)
Description
A new edition of this popular textbook, which presents a unique and interactive approach to nursing ethics using cases, discussion questions and summaries to foster the development of a wide range of ethical skills and intelligences.
New to this edition:
Themes of 'communication as an ethical value' and 'moral distress and moral space and ethical environment' are integrated as concepts and realities that impact on institutional structures and represent personal challenges for staff and hospital structures.
Includes a new chapter on moral disagreement and a more interactive chapter on the ethics of nursing research.
Provides more focus on themes and includes a suggested professional responsibilities section at the end of most chapters.
Considers ethical cases and concerns of nurses working in an Irish context, relating them to Irish Law and the Code of Professional Conduct for Nurses and Midwives.
Ethical theories are addressed throughout the text and presented in a coherent and accessible manner.
New terms are defined, ethical and legal principles are explained, familiar notions are probed and arguments are evaluated.
A glossary of terms to define concepts is provide in each chapter.
Summaries are provided at the end of each section and chapter.
WRITTEN FOR
- Undergraduate and postgraduate student nurses
- Staff nurses undertaking post-registration programmes
A new layout and approach
delivers all the essential
information at a reduced price
New to this edition:
Themes of 'communication as an ethical value' and 'moral distress and moral space and ethical environment' are integrated as concepts and realities that impact on institutional structures and represent personal challenges for staff and hospital structures.
Includes a new chapter on moral disagreement and a more interactive chapter on the ethics of nursing research.
Provides more focus on themes and includes a suggested professional responsibilities section at the end of most chapters.
Considers ethical cases and concerns of nurses working in an Irish context, relating them to Irish Law and the Code of Professional Conduct for Nurses and Midwives.
Ethical theories are addressed throughout the text and presented in a coherent and accessible manner.
New terms are defined, ethical and legal principles are explained, familiar notions are probed and arguments are evaluated.
A glossary of terms to define concepts is provide in each chapter.
Summaries are provided at the end of each section and chapter.
WRITTEN FOR
- Undergraduate and postgraduate student nurses
- Staff nurses undertaking post-registration programmes
A new layout and approach
delivers all the essential
information at a reduced price
More details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Dublin
Ireland
Publishing group
Gill
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
480 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7171-4986-5 (9780717149865)
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Persons
Dolores Dooley MA, PhD is a lecturer in Healthcare Ethics and Law at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
Joan McCarthy MA, PhD is a lecturer in Healthcare Ethics in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork.
Joan McCarthy MA, PhD is a lecturer in Healthcare Ethics in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork.
Content
Foreword by Professor Ann Gallagher
Introduction
Section One: The Patient-Nurse Relationship
Chapter 1: Autonomy and Beneficence
Chapter 2: Informed Consent to Nursing and Medical Procedures
Chapter 3: Truthful Conversations
Chapter 4: Respecting Patient Confidentiality
Section Two: Living and Dying
Chapter 5: Abortion and the Law
Chapter 6: Companying the Dying
Section Three: Nursing Ethically
Chapter 7: Ethics of Healthcare Research
Chapter 8: Moral Disagreement and Distress
Chapter 9: Traditional Moral Theories
Chapter 10: Contemporary Moral Theories
Glossary
Appendices:
1. Gillick Competence
2. Advance Directives
a) Sample Form of a General Advance Directive
b) Advance Decision to Refuse Specified Medical Treatment:
for Jehovah's Witnesses
3 Statements following the Supreme Court Decision in the 'Ward of Court' Case (1995) and IMC Statement on ANH (2009)
a) Medical Council Statement (4 August 1995)
b) An Bord Altranais Statement (18 August 1995)
4. Tools for Ethics
References and Further Reading
Foreword by Professor Ann Gallagher
Introduction
Section One: The Patient-Nurse Relationship
Chapter 1: Autonomy and Beneficence
Chapter 2: Informed Consent to Nursing and Medical Procedures
Chapter 3: Truthful Conversations
Chapter 4: Respecting Patient Confidentiality
Section Two: Living and Dying
Chapter 5: Abortion and the Law
Chapter 6: Companying the Dying
Section Three: Nursing Ethically
Chapter 7: Ethics of Healthcare Research
Chapter 8: Moral Disagreement and Distress
Chapter 9: Traditional Moral Theories
Chapter 10: Contemporary Moral Theories
Glossary
Appendices:
1. Gillick Competence
2. Advance Directives
a) Sample Form of a General Advance Directive
b) Advance Decision to Refuse Specified Medical Treatment:
for Jehovah's Witnesses
3 Statements following the Supreme Court Decision in the 'Ward of Court' Case (1995) and IMC Statement on ANH (2009)
a) Medical Council Statement (4 August 1995)
b) An Bord Altranais Statement (18 August 1995)
4. Tools for Ethics
References and Further Reading
Foreword by Professor Ann Gallagher