Kim Atkins (University of Tasmania), Bernhard Ripperger (NSW Department of Communities and Justice), Rebecca Ripperger (NSW Department of Communities and Justice)

Ethics and Law for Australian Nurses

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Produktbeschreibung

Ethics and Law for Australian Nurses is a comprehensive guide for nurses on providing morally and legally responsible and culturally safe care for patients in Australia. This edition discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on nursing practice, as well as on injury and negligence claims.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 5 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9781009236027
• ISBN-10: 1009236024
• Artikelnr.: 65693850

Autorenporträt

Kim Atkins is Adjunct Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania, and Education Manager at Laurel House (the sexual assault support service for North and North West Tasmania). She became a registered nurse in 1985 and specialised in intensive care nursing for over twenty years. Kim also has extensive experience in health system management within the Tasmanian Department of Health. Kim completed a Ph.D. in philosophy and taught at Macquarie University. She went on to teach philosophy and ethics in the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Nursing programs at the University of Wollongong and the University of Tasmania. She also runs workshops on values in the workplace, having difficult conversations, and trauma-informed practices. Kim is the author of Narrative Identity and Moral Identity: A Practical Perspective (2008), editor of Self and Subjectivity, and co-editor of Practical Identity and Narrative Agency.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Understanding the human person
2. The legal system
3. The nurse-patient relationship and the regulation of nursing practice
4. Consent
5. Duty of care and professional negligence
6. Culturally safe nursing practice
7. Patient information and confidentiality
8. 'Trust me, I'm a nurse'
9. Witnessing and making mistakes
10. Issues in abortion and euthanasia
11. Ethics of aged care: autonomy under threat and the nurse as capacity builder.