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Ethical Issues in Advanced Nursing Practice

  • 1st Edition - August 2, 2001
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Karen Bartter
  • Language: English

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… Read more

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Description

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.

Key features

* ·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

Readership

Nurse Practitioners

Table of contents

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.

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 13, 2001
  • Language: English

About the editor

KB

Karen Bartter

Affiliations and expertise
Senior Lecturer, University of Wolverhampton School of Nursing and Midwifery, The Nurse Education Centre, Burton-upon-Trent, UK