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- Title: Bioethics
- Author : Megan-Jane Johnstone PhD, BA, RN
- Release Date : January 20, 2015
- Genre: Nursing,Books,Professional & Technical,Medical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 10327 KB
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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 concerned with ethical conduct, unprofessional conduct and professional misconduct and ‘morality politics’ Case scenarios and critical questions to encourage students and registered nurses to reflect on key issues that relate to their own practiceNEW chapters: - Ethics, dehumanisation and vulnerable populations - Professional obligations to report harmful behaviours with a focus on impaired practitioners, child abuse and elder abuseIntroduces 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 inequalitiesAll chapters and references have been updated to reflect contemporary nursing practice, locally and globally