Main description:

A new edition of this popular textbook, which presents a unique and interactive approach to nursing ethics using cases, discussion questions and summaries to foster the development of a wide range of ethical skills and intelligences.

New to this edition:

Themes of 'communication as an ethical value' and 'moral distress and moral space and ethical environment' are integrated as concepts and realities that impact on institutional structures and represent personal challenges for staff and hospital structures.
Includes a new chapter on moral disagreement and a more interactive chapter on the ethics of nursing research.
Provides more focus on themes and includes a suggested professional responsibilities section at the end of most chapters.

Considers ethical cases and concerns of nurses working in an Irish context, relating them to Irish Law and the Code of Professional Conduct for Nurses and Midwives.

Ethical theories are addressed throughout the text and presented in a coherent and accessible manner.

New terms are defined, ethical and legal principles are explained, familiar notions are probed and arguments are evaluated.

A glossary of terms to define concepts is provide in each chapter.

Summaries are provided at the end of each section and chapter.

WRITTEN FOR

- Undergraduate and postgraduate student nurses

- Staff nurses undertaking post-registration programmes

A new layout and approach
delivers all the essential
information at a reduced price

Contents:

Foreword by Professor Ann Gallagher

Introduction

Section One: The Patient-Nurse Relationship

Chapter 1: Autonomy and Beneficence

Chapter 2: Informed Consent to Nursing and Medical Procedures

Chapter 3: Truthful Conversations

Chapter 4: Respecting Patient Confidentiality

Section Two: Living and Dying

Chapter 5: Abortion and the Law

Chapter 6: Companying the Dying

Section Three: Nursing Ethically

Chapter 7: Ethics of Healthcare Research

Chapter 8: Moral Disagreement and Distress

Chapter 9: Traditional Moral Theories

Chapter 10: Contemporary Moral Theories

Glossary

Appendices:

1. Gillick Competence

2. Advance Directives

a) Sample Form of a General Advance Directive

b) Advance Decision to Refuse Specified Medical Treatment:

for Jehovah's Witnesses

3 Statements following the Supreme Court Decision in the 'Ward of Court' Case (1995) and IMC Statement on ANH (2009)

a) Medical Council Statement (4 August 1995)

b) An Bord Altranais Statement (18 August 1995)

4. Tools for Ethics

References and Further Reading

Foreword by Professor Ann Gallagher