Ethical Issues in Advanced Nursing Practice

Herausgegeben:Bartter, Karen

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Nursing staff of many specialities are taking on and developing their roles in new and advanced practice areas. Patients will be offered new services from highly skilled advanced nurse practitioners. Such nurses need guidance, direction and information to assist them in their new roles. This book will offer insight and guidance on a variety of issues that are likely to be encountered by the Nurse Practitioner in everyday practice.

_ ·First book presenting ethical challenges at Nurse Practitioner level _
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· Aims to guide practice and offer points for discussion and reflective thinking

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Butterworth-Heinemann / Elsevier Health Science
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: C2009-0-40502-6
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 7mm x 138mm x 216mm
• Gewicht: 210g
• ISBN-13: 9780750649551
• Artikelnr.: 21021321

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Ethics and advanced nursing practice; Contraception and the under 16s - legal and ethical implications for the nurse practitioner; The abortion issue and advanced nursing practice; Raising awareness of the ethical issues surrounding termination of pregnancy for fetal abnormalities; Ethical considerations in childhood immunizations for the advanced nurse practitioner; Informed consent and the advanced nurse practitioner; The advanced nurse practitioner: empowerment in witnessed resuscitation; Advance directives - considerations for advanced nurse practitioners; Appendix; Index.