Steven Edwards

Nursing Ethics (eBook, PDF)

A Principle-Based Approach

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Struggling to understand ethics? Feeling lost when trying to handle moral dilemmas in professional practice? Worried about helping patients to make decisions in an ethical way?

Nursing Ethics is an introductory text which enables you to consider, understand and tackle difficult moral problems. It takes a principle-based approach, which provides a practical and easy-to-apply framework for addressing ethical dilemmas. The book includes clear descriptions of moral theories and concepts and is packed with case examples - giving it immediate relevance to everyday nursing situations.

As well as being significantly revised and updated, this new edition includes discussion of the Nursing and Midwifery Code (2008) and an entire chapter dedicated to genetics and the related complex ethical
issues.

Simple, clear and accessible - Nursing Ethics is an essential purchase for all students and practitioners of nursing and health care.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137118677
• Artikelnr.: 62723157

Autorenporträt

STEVE D. EDWARDS is Professor at the School of Human and Health Science at Swansea University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to 1st Edition
Introduction to 2nd Edition
Preliminary Matters
Judgements, Rules, Principles and Theories
The Four Principles
Conflicts between the Principles
Criticism of a Principle-based Approach
Applying the 'principles infused with care' Approach in the Context of
Genetics
Supererogatory Actions in Nursing
Bibliography
Index.