Integrating Ethics Into Clinical Experience
by Marcia Sue DeWolf Bosek
The Ethical Component of Nursing Education uses hands-on examples and learning exercises to help you apply critical ethical principles to specific nursing challenges - addressing a range of patient populations and settings.
Features:
- Knowledge-building content progresses from beginning to advanced material.
- Clinical exercises and case studies apply theory to practice, helping you access related policies, procedures, position papers and legal statutes.
- Discuss questions reinforce essential concepts at every skill level, and reflect ethical themes, critical thinking, and ethical analysis.
- References provide avenues to further investigation of specific topics, including many classic articles that may be overlooked on date-limited computer searches.
- Additional Internet-based resources direct you toward reliable information.
- Key words and a glossary give you a strong grasp on ethics terminology.
Contents
- Ethical Theories and Principles
- History of Clinical Ethics
- Ethical Standard of Practice
- The Student Role
- Ethical Decision-Making
- Confidentiality
- Truth-Telling
- Advocacy
- Allocation of Resources
- Research Ethics
- Nursing of Children and Adolescents
- Nursing of the Adult
- Women's Health Nursing
- Mental Health Nursing
- Community and Public Health Nursing
- Professional Ethical Issues Facing the Individual Nurse
- Professional Ethical Issues Facing the Nurse-Manager
Appendix
- Reports of Presidential Commissions
Glossary
Index
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