"An essential resource for nursing classrooms, in-service training, workshops and conferences, self-study, and wherever nursing professionals use ANA's Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements in Their Daily Practice" -- Page four of cover.
Provides a framework for nurses to use in ethical analysis and decision-making.
Readers get free 24/7 access to videos, case studies, journal articles, quizzes and multiple choice questions at the click of a button, by downloading the interactive eBook version of the text. (Redemption code and instructions inside the ...
This publication builds upon the contents of the first edition looking at ethics in nursing practice and also includes the ICN's reviewed guidelines for nursing research.
This book also addresses organizational and institutional issues that can confound or promote ethically sound decision making. Each chapter ends with a resource list of websites and recommendations for further reading.
Nursing Ethics and Professional Responsibility in Advanced Practice, Third Edition focuses on the historical background, knowledge and leadership skills necessary to improve the quality of health for both individuals and society.
Benjamin and Curtis (2010) identify a dual nature of professional codes of ethics. On the one hand, codes of ethics operate as a creed, a statement of regard for high ideals and commitment of professionals toward them, “a sort of oath ...
New to this Edition: - A new chapter on health, law, ethics and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders - Illustrated with 'real world' applications, the bookensures students understand how core components of the nursing and midwifery ...
Lewis M. Cohen (2011) offers an excellent example of the difference between lawfulness and legalism in nursing care in his riveting study of palliative medicine and euthanasia, No Good Deed. He tells of two devoted RNs, Amy Gleason and ...
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The book presents the underlying assumptions, characteristics, environments and settings, education and training requirements, key issues and trends, and ethical and conceptual bases of nursing practice.