Ethics & Issues In Contemporary Nursing
- 1st Edition - December 9, 2019
- Authors: Margaret A Burkhardt, Alvita K Nathaniel
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 6 9 7 3 3 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 6 9 7 3 5 - 4
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Learn how to think beyond the theoretical in any environment. Ethics & Issues in Contemporary Nursing, 1st Edition examines the latest trends, principles, theories, and models in patient care to help you learn how to make ethically sound decisions in complex and often controversial situations. Written from a global perspective, examples throughout the text reflect current national and international issues inviting you to explore cases considering socio-cultural influences, personal values, and professional ethics. Historical examples demonstrate how to think critically while upholding moral and professional standards, as well as the law. Key topics throughout explore advocacy and rights, diversity, nurse burnout, mass casualty events, social media, violence in the workplace, medication error prevention, opioid and other substance use, HIPAA, and healthcare reform. In addition, this new title contains supplemental case studies and review questions to further challenge and prepare you to make morally sound decisions in any healthcare setting.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Reviewers
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- PART I. Guides for Principled Behavior
- Introduction
- 1. Social, philosophical, and other historical forces influencing the development of nursing
- Introduction
- The influence of social need
- Spiritual, religious, gender, and philosophical influences
- Summary
- Chapter highlights
- Discussion questions and activities
- References
- 2. Ethical theory
- Introduction
- Philosophy
- Morals and ethics
- Theories of ethics
- Summary
- Chapter highlights
- Discussion questions and activities
- References
- 3. Ethical principles
- Introduction
- Respect for autonomy
- Beneficence
- Nonmaleficence
- Veracity
- Confidentiality
- Justice
- Fidelity
- Summary
- Chapter highlights
- Discussion questions and activities
- References
- PART II. Developing Principled Behavior
- Introduction
- 4. Values clarification
- Introduction
- What are values?
- Acquiring values
- Self-awareness
- Values in professional situations
- Summary
- Chapter highlights
- Discussion questions and activities
- References
- 5. Values development
- Introduction
- Transcultural considerations in values development
- Beliefs and values
- Theoretical perspectives of values development
- Some nursing considerations
- Summary
- Chapter highlights
- Discussion questions and activities
- References
- 6. Ethics and professional nursing
- Introduction
- Professional status
- Codes of nursing ethics
- Themes of nursing ethics
- Summary
- Chapter highlights
- Discussion questions and activities
- References
- 7. Ethical decision making
- Introduction
- Problem analysis
- Ethical decision making
- Ethical decision-making model
- Reactions to unresolved moral problems: Moral distress, moral outrage, and moral reckoning
- Summary
- Chapter highlights
- Discussion questions and activities
- References
- PART III. Principled Behavior in the Professional Domain
- Introduction
- 8. Legal issues
- Introduction
- Relationship between ethics and the law
- General legal concepts
- Reducing risk
- Nurses as expert witnesses
- Summary
- Chapter highlights
- Discussion questions and activities
- References
- 9. Professional relationship issues
- Introduction
- Problem solving in the professional realm
- Nurses’ relationships with institutions
- Nurses’ relationships with other nurses
- Nurses’ relationships with physicians
- Nurses’ relationships with subordinates
- Discrimination
- Sexual harassment and discrimination
- Summary
- Chapter highlights
- Discussion questions and activities
- References
- 10. Practice issues related to technology
- Introduction
- Benefits and challenges of technology
- Current technology: Issues and dilemmas
- Nursing practice in the midst of technology
- Summary
- Chapter highlights
- Discussion questions and activities
- References
- 11. Practice issues related to patient self-determination
- Introduction
- Autonomy and health care decisions
- Informed consent
- Advance directives
- Choices concerning life and health
- Summary
- Chapter highlights
- Discussion questions and activities
- References
- 12. Scholarship issues
- Introduction
- Academic honesty
- Research issues and ethics
- Summary
- Chapter highlights
- Discussion questions and activities
- References
- PART IV. Global Issues That Interface With Nursing Practice
- Introduction
- 13. Global consciousness in the 21st century
- Introduction
- Earth ethics and health
- Disasters: Nursing response and ethical considerations
- Displaced persons, migrants, refugees, and victims of armed conflict
- War and violence
- Health care access and financing
- Global needs and finite resources
- Traditional systems of healing and health care
- Challenges for rural and urban aggregates
- Summary
- Chapter highlights
- Discussion questions and activities
- References
- 14. Health policy issues
- Introduction
- Political issues
- Health policy
- Nursing, policy, and politics
- Nursing advocacy in the policy process
- Summary
- Chapter highlights
- Discussion questions and activities
- References
- 15. Economic issues
- Introduction
- Overview of today’s health care economics
- Distributive justice
- Recent trends and health economic issues
- Summary
- Chapter highlights
- Discussion questions and activities
- References
- 16. Social issues
- Introduction
- Social issues
- Homelessness
- Sexual violence
- Human trafficking
- Racism and ethnic inequities
- Ethical principles applied to social issues
- Personal impediments to intervening with vulnerable groups
- Summary
- Chapter highlights
- Discussion questions and activities
- References
- 17. Gender issues
- Introduction
- Gender issues in the workplace
- Gender issues and nursing practice
- Summary
- Chapter highlights
- Discussion questions and activities
- References
- 18. Transcultural and spiritual issues
- Introduction
- Transcultural issues
- Issues related to spirituality and religion
- Summary
- Chapter highlights
- Discussion questions and activities
- References
- PART V. The Power to Make a Difference
- Introduction
- 19. Empowerment for nurses
- Introduction
- Influences on nursing’s perceptions of principled practice
- Understanding power and empowerment
- Personal empowerment
- Professional empowerment
- Revisioning nursing
- Summary
- Chapter highlights
- Discussion questions and activities
- References
- 20. Facilitating patient empowerment
- Introduction
- Patients and empowerment
- Nurses and patient empowerment
- Enhancing patient capacity for decision making
- Fostering patient empowerment
- Summary
- Chapter highlights
- Discussion questions and activities
- References
- Appendix
- Glossary
- Index
- No. of pages: 401
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: December 9, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323697330
- eBook ISBN: 9780323697354
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Margaret A Burkhardt
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor Emerita,West Virginia University School of Nursing,Charleston, West VirginiaAN
Alvita K Nathaniel
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emerita,West University School of Nursing,Charleston, West Virginia