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Bioethical decision making in nursing

Husted, Gladys L.

Bioethical decision making in nursing [E-Book] - 5th ed. - New York : Springer Publishing Company, 2015. - 1 online resource (xv, 287 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ethical foundations -- The ethical journey taken by patient and nurse -- The nurse/patient agreement -- The bioethical standards and their role as preconditions of the agreement -- The nature of the ethical context -- Contemporary ethical systems -- Nursing practice intersections: legal decision making within a symphonological ethical perspective / Suzanne Edgett Collins -- Practice-based ethics and the bioethical standards as lenses -- Moral distress -- The power of analysis through extremes -- Elements of human autonomy -- Virtues as resources.

Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title!. ""This book provides a systematic approach to bioethical decision making, a process that can help clarify situations where right and wrong are not clearly defined. This [is] a valuable book for ethics and theory courses. "" Score: 100, 5 stars. --Doody's. More relevant today than ever, Husted and Husted's classic nursing ethics text provides a practical framework to help nurses engage with patients to make difficult ethical decisions. It delivers a systematic approach to bioethical decision-making that can help clarify situations where ""right"" and ""wrong""

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Decision making--Nursing.
Decision making--Moral and ethical aspects.
Ethics--Nursing.
Nursing models.
Nursing ethics.
Mathematical models.
Ethics, Nursing
Decision Making--ethics
Models, Theoretical
Models, Nursing

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