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Bioethical decision making in nursing [E-Book]

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Springer Publishing Company, 2015.Edition: 5th edDescription: 1 online resource (xv, 287 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780826171443
  • 0826171443
  • 9780826130143
  • 0826130143
Subject(s): NLM classification:
  • WY 85
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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