Nursing Ethics: A Principle-Based Approach

by Steven Edwards

Overview

Struggling to understand ethics? Feeling lost when trying to handle moral dilemmas in professional practice? Worried about helping patients to make decisions in an ethical way?

Nursing Ethics is an introductory text which enables you to consider, understand and tackle difficult moral problems. It takes a principle-based approach, which provides a practical and easy-to-apply framework for addressing ethical dilemmas. The book includes clear descriptions of moral theories and concepts and is packed with case examples – giving it immediate relevance to everyday nursing situations.

As well as being significantly revised and updated, this new edition includes discussion of the Nursing and Midwifery Code (2008) and an entire chapter dedicated to genetics and the related complex ethical
issues.

Simple, clear and accessible – Nursing Ethics is an essential purchase for all students and practitioners of nursing and health care.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350310643
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	08/26/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	844 KB

About the Author

STEVE D. EDWARDS is Professor at the School of Human and Health Science at Swansea University, UK.
Steven Edwards RMN, BA(Hons), MPhil, PhD is a Lecturer in Health Care Ethics at the Centre for Philosophy and Health Care, the University of Wales, UK.

Table of Contents

Preface to 1st Edition
Introduction to 2nd Edition
Preliminary Matters
Judgements, Rules, Principles and Theories
The Four Principles
Conflicts between the Principles
Criticism of a Principle-based Approach
Applying the 'principles infused with care' Approach in the Context of Genetics
Supererogatory Actions in Nursing
Bibliography
Index.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Reviews of 2nd edition draft typescript:'…this is one of the clearest and most thorough introductions to theoretical ethics for nurses I have read.' - Dr Simon Woods, Director of Teaching& Learning, Policy Ethics and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, UK

'...I will be recommending this 2nd edition just as I have hitherto recommended the 1st edition.' - Dr Derek Sellman, Principal Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care, University of the West of England, UK

'I would have no hesitation in recommending this book as essential reading for Healthcare Ethics modules.' - Dr Janet Holt, Senior Lecturer, School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, UK