Ethics & Issues In Contemporary Nursing

1st Edition - September 26, 2019
Authors: Margaret A Burkhardt, Alvita K Nathaniel
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:
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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

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Margaret A Burkhardt

Alvita K Nathaniel