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Nursing Ethics and Professional Responsibility in Advanced Practice

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ISBN-10: 1449667422

ISBN-13: 9781449667429

Edition: 2nd 2014 (Revised)

Authors: Pamela J. Grace

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Nursing Ethics and Professional Responsibility in Advanced Practice, Second Edition is a comprehensive textbook focused on advanced practice nursing ethics. The text proactively addresses challenges that span specialty areas well as issues unique to these areas of practice. This is the only resource available that addresses the range of ethical problems that advanced practice nurses face. Advanced practice nurses (APNs) share the same professional responsibilities that other practicing nurses do, however, given their expanded scope of practice they assume a role with greater responsibility. Advanced practice nurses are often the primary care givers for their patients but even when they are…    
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Book details

List price: $123.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC
Publication date: 8/26/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Preface
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Foundations of Advanced Practice Nursing Ethics
Philosophical Foundations of Applied and Professional Ethics
Introduction
Groundwork
Philosophy
Moral Reasoning in Health Care: Tools
Summary
Discussion Questions
Nursing Ethics
Introduction
Nursing as a Profession
Ethical Decision Making and Action for Good Care
Summary
Discussion Questions
Common Ethical Issues across Practice Specialties
Advanced Practice Nursing: The Nurse-Patient Relationship and General Ethical Concerns
Introduction
Virtue Ethics: The Characteristics of Good APNs
Informed Consent
Decision-Making Capacity
Veracity and Transparency
Privacy and Confidentiality
Summary
Discussion Questions
Professional Responsibility, Social Justice, Human Rights, and Injustice
Introduction
The Concept of Social Justice
The Historical Development of Ideas of Social Justice
Individuals and Society: Tensions
Moral Rights
Advanced Practice Nursing and Professional Advocacy
Conclusion
Summary
Discussion Questions
Ethical Leadership by Advanced Practice Nurses
Introduction
Leadership Defined
Characteristics of Effective Leadership
The Goals of Nursing: Advanced Practice Leadership
Enhancing APN Leadership
Historical and Contemporary Nursing Leaders
Summary
Discussion Questions
Research Ethics: Advanced Practice Roles and Responsibilities
Introduction
Research-Related Roles of the Advanced Practice Nurse
Background: Human Subjects Research
The Historical Development of Research Ethics
Research Ethics: Guiding Principles
Problems Facing Nurses in Research Roles and Settings
Summary
Discussion Questions
Ethical Issues in Advanced Practice Specialty Areas
Nursing Ethics and Advanced Practice: Neonatal Issues
Introduction
The Context of Care
The Best Interest Standard
Collaborative Decision Making
Medical Futility
Summary
Discussion Questions
Nursing Ethics and Advanced Practice: Children and Adolescents
Introduction
Frequently Encountered Concerns
Summary
Discussion Questions
Acknowledgments
Nursing Ethics and Advanced Practice: Women's Health
Introduction
Gaining Trust: Setting the Groundwork for an Ethically Sound Practice in Women's Health
Frequently Encountered Concerns
Violence Against Women
Coercion, Contraception, and Sterilization
Assisted Reproductive Technologies
The Woman and Her Fetus: A Maternal-Fetal Conflict?
Genetic Testing Specific to Women's Health
Providing Transgender Health Services: Is Informed Consent Enough?
Summary
Discussion Questions
Nursing Ethics and Advanced Practice: Adult-Gerontologic Health
Introduction
Reaching Consensus Internationally: What It Means to Be an APN
Nursing-Is It So Unique?
Changes in Health Care and the APRN
Nursing Knowledge and Nursing Practice
Threats to Autonomy
Health Promotion
Access to Care
Summary
Nursing Ethics and Advanced Practice: Psychiatric and Mental Health Issues
Introduction
Good Psychiatric Advanced Nursing Practice
Psychiatry and Mental Illness: Goals and Ethical Principles
Ethical Principles Plus the Goals of Nursing: Providing Direction
Related Issues
Discussion Questions
Nursing Ethics and Advanced Practice in the Anesthesia and Perioperative Period
Introduction
Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders During Surgery
The Jehovah's Witness Patient
Truth Telling in the Operating Room: The Obligation of Veracity
Conscientious Objection in Anesthesia Practice
Anesthesia and Distributive Justice
Protecting Patients from Incompetent and Impaired Healthcare Providers
Ethical Challenges During Wartime
Summary
Nursing Ethics and Advanced Practice: Palliative and End-of-Life Care Across the Lifespan
Introduction
End-of-Life Ethical Landmark Cases
The Emergence of Palliative Care as a Specialty
The Institute of Medicine's Report: When Children Die
The Distinction Between Palliative Care and End-of-Life Care
Multidisciplinary Approaches
International Perspectives
Ethical Decision Making: Identifying a Decision Maker
Pediatrics
Adults and Decision Making
Futility at the End of Life: What Does It Mean? Who Decides?
Defining Futility
Problems with Futility at the End of Life
Approaches to Help Minimize Futile Interventions
Honoring Patient Wishes: Requests for Help with Dying
Palliative Sedation
Discussion
The Rule of Double Effect
Autonomy in End-of-Life Decision Making
Advance Directives
Enhancing End-of-Life Decision Making
Withdrawing and Withholding Nutrition and Hydration
The Role of the Advanced Practice Nurse
Summary
Discussion Questions
Supplemental Resources
Glossary
Index