Kath Melia

Ethics for Nursing and Healthcare Practice (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Everyday clinical practice is steeped in ethical considerations, but discussion of ethics is often removed from these real-life situations. Kath M Melia's new book works in the gap between theory and practice. The chapters tackle the main theories which form the discussion on ethics, and include practical case examples, which bring these theories into the clinical context. These classic and everyday cases challenge the reader to critically reflect on his/her own experiences and outlook.

The social, legal and professional regulation context is brought into the discussion throughout, to equip students with the knowledge that they need to make clinical decisions.

Topics covered include:

- Beauchamp and Childress' four principles of bioethics

- Rights

- Personal and individual conscience

- Moral philosophy

- The virtues/virtue ethics of the practitioner.

This book will be essential reading for pre-registration nursing students taking modules in ethics and law. It will also be a valuable text for postgraduates and qualified nurses, and students of health who need to gain an appreciation of ethics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781446296783
• Artikelnr.: 42154527

Autorenporträt

Kath Melia is Professor of Nursing, University of Edinbugh and author of Nursing Ethics, 4e (with Ian Thompson and Kenneth Boyd; Churchill Livingstone).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Principles at the Root of Ethical Debate
Nursing and Healthcare Ethics - the Sociological Perspective
Individual Conscience Approach to Ethics
Kantian Ethics - Duty-Based Theory
Ethics and the Law
Utilitarianism - Greatest Happiness Theory
Rights-based Ethics
Virtue Ethics and Professional Regulation
Concluding Thoughts

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Introduction
Principles at the Root of Ethical Debate
Nursing and Healthcare Ethics - the Sociological Perspective
Individual Conscience Approach to Ethics
Kantian Ethics - Duty-Based Theory
Ethics and the Law
Utilitarianism - Greatest Happiness Theory
Rights-based Ethics
Virtue Ethics and Professional Regulation
Concluding Thoughts

Rezensionen

If you don t know why nurses need to understand ethics read the newspapers; if you want nurses to understand ethics give them this book. This is well written with very practical examples with which nurses and nursing students can identify.







Roger Watson 20140113