Nursing & Healthcare Ethics
- 6th Edition - August 9, 2012
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Simon Robinson, Owen Doody
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 7 9 0 4 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 8 0 1 3 - 5
Now in its sixth edition, this highly popular text covers the range of ethical issues affecting nurses and other healthcare professionals. Authors Simon Robinson and Owen Doody ta… Read more
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Request a sales quoteNow in its sixth edition, this highly popular text covers the range of ethical issues affecting nurses and other healthcare professionals. Authors Simon Robinson and Owen Doody take a holistic and practical approach, focused in the dialogue of ethical decision making and how this connects professional, leadership and governance ethics in the modern healthcare environment. This focuses on the responsibility of professionals and leaders, and the importance of shared responsibility in the practice of healthcare.
With a foreword by the eminent medical ethicist Alastair Campbell, the revised edition includes contemporary topics, such as the duty of candour, recent cases, such as the Mid Staffs scandal, and ethical perspectives on vulnerable groups, such as; persons with intellectual/learning disability, dementia and those with an enduring mental illness. It builds on professional identity and personal development as part of ongoing learning, individual and organizational, and provides interactive ways that helps the reader to develop reflective ethical practice. This text aims to enable ethical engagement with the ever changing healthcare environment, and is a must-have for anyone serious about ethics in healthcare.
- Holistic and practice relevant approach
- New perspectives on vulnerable groups, such as persons with intellectual/learning disability, dementia and those with an enduring mental illness
- Descriptive (including moral psychology) as well as normative ethical theory
- Promoting dialogue and engagement with practice, practitioners, patients and families
- Development of professional ethical skills
- Connecting professional ethics to leadership, governance and social ethics
- Highly accessible format
- Case studies/Scenarios presented within chapters and pause for thought exercises to promote dialogue and engagement
- Suitable for pre/post registration nurses, students, health care professionals
- Cover
- Title page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Authors
- Introduction
- Part 1: The Nature of Healthcare Ethics
- Chapter 1: The Nursing Profession: Its Value and Values
- Introduction
- The Mid Staffordshire Healthcare Trust
- Organisational Breakdown
- Nursing and Mid Staffs
- The Professional Body or Institution
- Trust and the Professions
- The Professions as Empowering
- The Nursing Profession
- The Six Cs
- Nursing and Reflective Practice
- Emerging Values
- Chapter 2: Making Decisions: The Ethical Dimension
- Introduction
- Identifying Options and Planning
- Audit
- Reflecting Practice and Ethical Decision Making
- Descriptive Theories: Making Sense of Ethical Practice
- Non-Rational Theories
- A Third Way: Dialogue and Narrative
- The Motivations to be Ethical
- Ethical Terminology
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3: Whose Responsibility Is It?
- Introduction
- Making the Decision
- Responsibility
- Interactive Modes of Responsibility
- Codes
- Character
- Integrity
- Conclusions
- Part 2: The Practice of Healthcare Ethics
- Chapter 4: Ethical Dilemmas in Practice
- Introduction
- Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing Practice
- Nursing Core Principles and Codes of Conduct
- Care and Caring in Nursing Practice
- Ethical Decision-Making Process
- Applying Ethics in One’s Practice
- Health, Ethics and Value Judgement
- Abortion/Right to Life
- Truth-Telling and Confidentiality
- Euthanasia/Right to Die
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5: Responsibilities and Rights in Nurse–Patient/Client Relationships
- Introduction
- Rights and Duties
- The Meaning of ‘Rights’ and ‘Duties’
- Institutional, Legal and Moral Rights
- Rights and Duties When Dealing With Patients/Clients
- The Rights of People as Patients/Clients
- Telling the Truth to Patients or Relatives
- Resuscitation of a Baby
- Treatment Without Consent
- Struggles Over Sedation
- Right to Treatment
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6: Conflicting Demands in Patient/Client Groups
- Introduction
- Personal Autonomy Versus the Common Good
- Setting Limits to the Control and Direction of Patients/Clients
- Preventing Suicide, and the ‘Right’ to Die
- Behaviour Modification
- Public Health
- Health Education
- Communication and ‘Counselling’
- Balancing the Rights of Patients With the Interests of Third Parties
- Allocation of Resources
- Uneasy Ethics
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7: Ethics in Healthcare Research and Teaching
- Introduction
- The Willowbrook Studies
- Codes of Research Ethics
- Helsinki Code
- Belmont Report
- Underlying Principles
- Regulation and Governance of Research Ethics
- The Research Governance Framework
- Conflict of Interest
- Ethical Approval
- Human Tissue Act
- Internet Ethics
- The Nursing Student as Research Participant
- Double Agency
- Research in the Dementia Population
- Gatekeepers
- Inclusion in Research
- The Ethical Framework of Teaching
- Conclusion
- Part 3: Ethics, Leadership and Management in Healthcare
- Chapter 8: Ethical Leadership
- Introduction
- Understanding Leadership
- Leadership Virtues
- The Role of Nursing Leadership
- Organisational Leadership
- Ethical Leadership, Trust, Communication and Dialogue
- Dialogue and Ethical Leadership
- Interactive Leadership
- Conclusion
- Chapter 9: Ethical Governance
- Introduction
- Fat Cats and Dirty Rats?
- Governance
- Governance Theories
- The King Reports
- Clinical Governance
- The Seven Pillars of Clinical Governance
- Integrated Governance
- The Development of an Ethical Culture
- Orienting
- Institutionalising
- Sustaining
- Conclusions
- Chapter 10: Public Health Ethics and the Social and Political Ethics of Healthcare
- Introduction
- Paternalism
- The Public Context
- Public Health and the Moral Imagination
- The Social Ethics of Healthcare
- Morality and the Market
- Health and Social Care Act 2012
- Resource Allocation: Rationing
- Conclusion
- Chapter 11: Normative Ethics
- Introduction
- Everest Emergency
- Response
- Utilitarian Theory
- Deontological Theories
- Summing Up So Far
- Non-Rationalist Theories
- Worldviews
- Transcendent Worldviews
- Integrating Different Normative Theories
- An Ethics of Care
- Autonomy and Patient-Centred Care
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Subject Index
- Edition: 6
- Published: August 9, 2012
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 336
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780702079047
- eBook ISBN: 9780702080135
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Simon Robinson
Affiliations and expertise
Rev Professor of Applied and Professional Ethics, Leeds Business School, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UKOD
Owen Doody
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Lecturer, Department of Nursing & Midwifery, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland