Ethics & Issues In Contemporary Nursing

Margaret A Burkhardt, Alvita K Nathaniel (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

2024 | 2nd edition
Churchill Livingstone (Verlag)
978-0-443-10530-2 (ISBN)

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Learn how to think beyond the theoretical in any environment. Ethics & Issues in Contemporary Nursing, 2nd Edition examines the latest trends, principles, theories, and models in patient care to help you learn how to make ethically sound decisions in complex and often controversial situations. Written from a global perspective, examples throughout the text reflect current national and international issues inviting you to explore cases considering socio-cultural influences, personal values, and professional ethics. Historical examples demonstrate how to think critically while upholding moral and professional standards, as well as the law. Key topics throughout explore advocacy and rights, diversity, nurse burnout, mass casualty events, effects of the COVID pandemic, health equity, social media, violence in the workplace, medication error prevention, opioid and other substance use, HIPAA, and healthcare reform. In addition, this title contains supplemental case studies and review questions to further challenge and prepare you to make morally sound decisions in any healthcare setting.

NEW! Content on the latest developments in nursing includes coverage of The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity report, resiliency, burnout, and nurses in wartime.
NEW! Focused linking of the content of each chapter with sections of professional nursing codes of ethics provides guidance for dealing with ethical dilemmas.
NEW! Scenarios of the Pandemic boxes explore the impact of ethical dilemmas on nurses during the COVID pandemic.
EXPANDED! Additional information enhances content on delegation, moral uncertainty, health care for transgender patients, the impact of technology on nursing care and decisions, global consciousness and vaccine hesitance, immigration, and refugee issues.
UPDATED! Current coverage addresses key health policy issues.
UPDATED! Nursing Ethics, Social Issues, and Health Disparities chapter features the latest developments in those areas.
Straightforward and conversational writing style makes the content interesting and understandable.
Case studies and review questions on the Evolve companion website help you apply the concepts learned from the text.
More than 60 case presentations present scenarios from real-life situations.
Think About It exercises help you explore different facets of cases.
Ask Yourself questions challenge you to balance information in the text along with personal values and those of the nursing profession.
Summary and chapter highlights present an overview of key chapter content.
Discussion questions and activities allow you to further explore issues and ethics.

1 Social, Philosophical, and Other Historical Forces Influencing the Evolution of Nursing Ethics
2 Theories of Ethics
3 Ethical Principles
4 Values Clarification for Ethical Nursing Practice
5 Moral Development: Acquiring Moral Reasoning, Values, and Behaviors
6 Ethics and the Professionalization of Nursing
7 Ethical Decision Making
8 Nursing Ethics and the Law
9 Ethics and Professional Relationships
10 Ethical Issues Related to Selected Healthcare Technologies
11 Ethical Issues Related to Patient Self-Determination
12 Ethical Issues Related to Nursing Education, Research, and Scholarship
13 Nursing Ethics in a Diverse Global Society
14 Nursing Ethics and Health Policy Issues
15 Ethical Implications of Healthcare Economics
16 Nursing Ethics, Social Issues, and Health Disparities
17 Gender Issues and Nursing Ethics
18 Ethical Issues Related to Transcultural and Spiritual Care
19 The Power of Ethical Nursing
20 The Empowered Nurse

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2024
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	191 x 235 mm
Gewicht	800 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	0-443-10530-8 / 0443105308
ISBN-13	978-0-443-10530-2 / 9780443105302
Zustand	Neuware