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Elsevier Bioethics A Nursing Perspective 7th Edition by Johnstone, Megan-Jane
Written by Australia's foremost nursing ethics scholar, Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective comprehensibly addresses the ethical challenges, obligations and responsibilities nurses will encounter in practice.With a strong emphasis on the principles and standards of human rights and social justice, the 7th edition examines the spectrum of bioethical issues in health care with a focus on patients' rights, cross-cultural ethics, vulnerability ethics, mental health ethics, professional conduct, patient safety and end-of-life ethics.Coverage of the moral terrain of everyday practice, including:Codes of Ethics and Codes of ConductEnd-of-life care, directives and legislationMoral disengagementPrejudice, discrimination and vulnerable populationsElder abuse and child abuseFuture nursing ethics challengesCase scenarios and critical questions to encourage reflection on key issues in practiceAdditional resources on EvolveeBook on VitalSource 1.Professional standards and the requirement to be ethical2.Ethics, bioethics and nursing ethics: some working defintions3.Moral theory and the ethical practice of nursing4. Cross cultural ethics and the ethical practice of nursing5.Moral problems and moral decision-making in nursing and health care contexts6.Ethics, dehumanisation and vulnerable populations7.Patients' rights to and in health care8.Ethical issues in mental health care9.Ethical issues in end-of-life care 10.The moral politics of abortion and euthanasia11.Professional judgment, moral quandaries and taking 'appropriate action'12.Professional obligations to report harmful behaviours: risks to patient safety, child abuse and elder abuse13.Nursing ethics futures - challenges in the 21st century