Kim Atkins, Bernhard Ripperger, Rebecca Ripperger

Ethics and Law for Australian Nurses (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Every day, registered nurses are required to act and make decisions based on their moral and legal obligations. They must build professional, culturally safe relationships with patients, understand patient rights and the requirements of consent, and prevent and manage clinical mistakes in order to avoid negligence and abuse of power. Now in its fifth edition, Ethics and Law for Australian Nurses guides students through foundational concepts such as personhood, autonomy, trust, consent and vulnerability, and considers a nurse's responsibilities in relation to voluntary assisted dying, abortions and advanced care directives. It explains the Australian legal system and how it relates to nursing practice. This edition discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially on elderly Australians, as well as on injury and negligence claims. It includes updated discussions on guardianship, assisted dying, abortion and 'not for resuscitation' orders.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009236041
• Artikelnr.: 68948571

Autorenporträt

Kim Atkins is Adjunct Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania, and Education Manager at Laurel House (the sexual assault support service for North and North West Tasmania). She became a registered nurse in 1985 and specialised in intensive care nursing for over twenty years. Kim also has extensive experience in health system management within the Tasmanian Department of Health. Kim completed a Ph.D. in philosophy and taught at Macquarie University. She went on to teach philosophy and ethics in the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Nursing programs at the University of Wollongong and the University of Tasmania. She also runs workshops on values in the workplace, having difficult conversations, and trauma-informed practices. Kim is the author of Narrative Identity and Moral Identity: A Practical Perspective (2008), editor of Self and Subjectivity, and co-editor of Practical Identity and Narrative Agency.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Understanding the human person
2. The legal system
3. The nurse-patient relationship and the regulation of nursing practice
4. Consent
5. Duty of care and professional negligence
6. Culturally safe nursing practice
7. Patient information and confidentiality
8. 'Trust me, I'm a nurse'
9. Witnessing and making mistakes
10. Issues in abortion and euthanasia
11. Ethics of aged care: autonomy under threat and the nurse as capacity builder.