Bioethics
A Nursing Perspective
- 8th Edition - September 7, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Megan-Jane Johnstone
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 9 5 - 4 4 2 8 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 9 5 - 8 9 9 5 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 9 5 - 8 9 9 4 - 9
Now in its eighth edition, Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective provides practical guidance on the ethical issues you might come across in nursing practice, with real-world examples th… Read more
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Request a sales quoteNow in its eighth edition, Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective provides practical guidance on the ethical issues you might come across in nursing practice, with real-world examples that help to bring this important subject to life.
Author Dr Megan-Jane Johnstone AO, Australia's foremost nursing ethics scholar, provides a comprehensive framework for negotiating the ethical challenges, obligations and responsibilities you might face. The text is engaging and easy to follow, and has been fully updated to reflect current issues in health care such as nurse practitioner assisted dying, pandemic ethics, and the moral costs of misinformation and medical conspiracy theories. .
This book is a suitable companion to the law and ethics components of both undergraduate and postgraduate nursing studies, and is relevant for all nurses who encounter ethical problems in their everyday practice.
- Written in an engaging style – suitable for undergraduate as well as postgraduate students and researchers
- Focuses on prominent and topical ethical issues facing individual nurses as well as the broader profession
- Covers a broad range of bioethical issues in health care and how these relate to various fundamental traditions in philosophical ethics
- Real-life case studies and hypothetical scenarios to encourage debate
- Covers hot topics in modern nursing practice, including:
- Professional standards
- How to make moral decisions
- Cross-cultural ethics, including the problem of racism
- Dehumanisation and vulnerable populations
- Patient rights
- Mental health care ethics
- End-of-life care
- Moral politics of abortion and euthanasia
- Moral lessons of COVID-19
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- Cover Image
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Section 1 Foundations of Nursing Ethics and Professional Conduct
- Chapter 1 Professional Standards and the Requirement to be Ethical
- Learning Objectives
- Keywords
- Introduction
- Unprofessional conduct and professional misconduct
- Questioning the requirement to be morally exemplary
- Nursing as a moral project
- National and international standards of conduct
- Conclusion
- Critical Questions
- Endnote
- Chapter 2 Ethics, Bioethics and Nursing Ethics: Some Working Definitions
- Learning Objectives
- Keywords
- Introduction
- The importance of understanding ethics terms and concepts
- The need for a critical inquiry into ethical professional practice
- Understanding moral language
- What is ethics?
- What is bioethics?
- What is nursing ethics?
- What ethics is not
- The task of ethics, bioethics and nursing ethics
- Conclusion
- Critical Questions
- Endnotes
- Chapter 3 Moral Theory and the Ethical Practice of Nursing
- Learning Objectives
- Keywords
- Introduction
- Moral justification
- Theoretical perspectives informing ethical practice
- Limitations and weaknesses of ethical theory
- Moral justification and moral theory – some further thoughts
- Conclusion
- Critical Questions
- Endnote
- Chapter 4 Moral Problems in Nursing and Health Care Contexts
- Learning Objectives
- Keywords
- Introduction
- Distinguishing moral problems from other sorts of problems
- Identifying different kinds of moral problems
- Conclusion
- Critical Questions
- Endnotes
- Chapter 5 Moral Decision-Making in Nursing and Health Care Contexts
- Learning Objectives
- Keywords
- Introduction
- Everyday moral problems in nursing
- Conclusion
- Critical Questions
- Section 2 Culture and Context
- Chapter 6 Cross-cultural Ethics and the Ethical Practice of Nursing
- Learning Objectives
- Keywords
- Introduction
- Cross-cultural ethics and nursing
- Culture and its relationship to ethics
- The nature and implications of a cross-cultural approach to ethics
- Moral diversity and the challenge of moral pluralism
- Dealing with problems associated with a cross-cultural approach to ethics in health care
- Ethics, cultural competency, cultural safety and cultural humility
- Conclusion
- Critical Questions
- Endnotes
- Chapter 7 Ethics, Dehumanisation and Vulnerable Populations
- Learning Objectives
- Keywords
- Introduction
- Vulnerability
- Humanness, dehumanisation and vulnerability
- Identifying vulnerable individuals and groups
- Conclusion
- Critical Questions
- Endnotes
- Section 3 Culture and Context
- Chapter 8 Patients’ Rights to and in Health Care
- Learning Objectives
- Keywords
- Introduction
- What are patients’ rights?
- Conclusion
- Critical Questions
- Endnotes
- Chapter 9 Ethical Issues in Mental Health Care
- Learning Objectives
- Keywords
- Introduction
- Human rights and the mentally ill
- Recovery-oriented services
- Coercion and competency to decide
- Psychiatric advance directives
- Ethical issues in suicide and parasuicide
- Conclusion
- Critical Questions
- Endnotes
- Chapter 10 Ethical Issues in End-of-Life Care
- Learning Objectives
- Keywords
- Introduction
- Not For Treatment (NFT) directives
- Not For Resuscitation (NFR)/Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) directives
- Medical futility
- Quality of life
- Advance directives
- Advance care planning
- Conclusion
- Critical Questions
- Endnotes
- Chapter 11 The Moral Politics of Abortion and Euthanasia
- Learning Objectives
- Keywords
- Introduction
- Morality policy
- Moral politics
- Abortion
- Arguments for and against the moral permissibility of abortion
- Euthanasia
- Position statements and the nursing profession
- Conclusion
- Critical Questions
- Endnotes
- Chapter 12 Professional Judgment, Moral Quandaries and Taking ‘Appropriate Action’
- Learning Objectives
- Keywords
- Introduction
- Moral conflict and professional judgment
- Conscientious objection
- Whistleblowing in health care
- Preventing ethics conflicts
- Conclusion
- Critical Questions
- Endnotes
- Chapter 13 Professional Obligations to Report Harmful Behaviours: Risks to Patient Safety, Child Abuse and Elder Abuse
- Learning Objectives
- Keywords
- Introduction
- Reporting notifiable and health-impaired conduct of practitioners and students
- Reporting child abuse and elder abuse
- Child Abuse and Neglect
- Elder abuse and neglect
- Ethical issues associated with protecting children and elderly people from abuse
- The moral demand to report child and elder maltreatment
- The notion of harm and its link with the moral duty to prevent child and elder abuse
- Considerations against reporting the maltreatment of children and elderly people
- Response to the criticisms
- The importance of a supportive socio-cultural environment in abuse prevention
- Conclusion
- Critical Questions
- Endnotes
- Section 4 Nursing Ethics Futures – Challenges in the 21st Century and Beyond
- Chapter 14 Pandemic Ethics
- Learning Objectives
- Keywords
- Introduction
- The COVID-19 pandemic
- The ‘duty to care’
- The duty of the public and the value of solidarity
- The moral costs of making tragic choices
- The moral costs of medical conspiracy theories
- Vaccine ethics
- Conclusion
- Critical Questions
- Endnotes
- Chapter 15 Ethics and Public Health Emergencies: Climate Change, Antimicrobial Resistance, Health Inequities and Emergency Preparedness
- Learning Objectives
- Keywords
- Introduction
- Public health emergencies
- Inequalities in health and health care
- Emergency preparedness
- Conclusion
- Critical Questions
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Edition: 8
- Published: September 7, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 483
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780729544283
- eBook ISBN: 9780729589956
- eBook ISBN: 9780729589949
MJ
Megan-Jane Johnstone
Affiliations and expertise
Independent Scholar; Formerly Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia.