James H. Husted, Gladys Husted, Carrie Scotto

Bioethical Decision Making in Nursing, Fifth Edition (Revised)

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

More relevant today than ever, Husted and Husted's classic nursing ethics text provides a practical framework to help nurses engage with patients to make difficult ethical decisions. It delivers a systematic approach to bioethical decision-making that can help clarify situations where "right” and "wrong” are not clearly defined.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 579g
• ISBN-13: 9780826171436
• ISBN-10: 0826171435
• Artikelnr.: 41311524

Autorenporträt

Gladys L. Husted, RN, MSN, PhD, CNE, is Professor Emeritus of Nursing, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
List of Case Study Dilemmas
List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
SECTION I: THE BASICS OF BIOETHICAL DECISION MAKING
1. Ethical Foundations
2. The Ethical Journey Taken by the Patient and Nurse
3. The Nurse–Patient Agreement
4. The Bioethical Standards and Their Role as Preconditions of the
Agreement
5. The Nature of the Ethical Context
6. Contemporary Ethical Systems
7. Nursing Practice Intersections: Legal Decision Making Within a
Symphonological Ethical Perspective
Suzanne Edgett Collins
8. Practice-Based Ethics and the Bioethical Standards as Lenses
9. Moral Distress
SECTION II: BEYOND THE BASICS—AN EXTENDED PERSPECTIVE
10. The Power of Analysis Through Extremes
11. Elements of Human Autonomy
12. Virtues as Resources
SECTION III: CASE STUDY ANALYSES
Analyses of Dilemmas
Glossary
Appendix
Index