Ethical Issues in Nursing

Name: Ethical Issues in Nursing
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ISBN: 9780415081450

ISBN-10: 0415081459

ISBN-13: 9780415081450

Edition: 1994

Authors: Geoffrey Hunt

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This book examines major ethical issues in nursing practice. Eschewing the abstract approaches of bioethics and medical ethics, it takes as its point of departure the difficulties nurses experience practicing within the confines of a bioethical model of health and illness and a hierarchical, technocratic health care system. The book's contributors discuss the role of the nurse in relation to issues of informed consent, privacy, dignity and confidentiality. The book also considers nursing accountability in relation to the contemporary Western health care system as a whole. New and critical essays examine the nature of professional codes, care, medical judgement, nursing research and the…

Book details

List price: $52.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/2/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 244
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.39" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Series Editors' Foreword


Acknowledgements


Introduction



Specific Issues



Nursing and Informed Consent



The Observation of Intimate Aspects of Care



Choice and Risk in the Care of Elderly People



Caring for Patients Who Cannot or Will Not Eat



Disabled People and the Ethics of Nursing Research



Ethical Issues in Hiv/Aids Epidemiology



General Issues



Nursing Accountability



The Value of Codes of Conduct



In the Patient's Best Interests



Nursing and the Concept of Care



'Medical Judgement' and the Right Time to Die



Nurse Time as a Scarce Health Care Resource


Bibliography


Index