Ethics in Nursing 3rd Edition

✍ Scribed by Martin Benjamin, Joy Curtis

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 265
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Written by a nurse and a philosopher, Ethics in Nursing blends the concrete detail of recurring problems in nursing practice with the perspectives, methods, and resources of philosophical ethics. It stresses the aspects of the nurses role and relations with others -- physicians, patients, administrators, other nurses -- that give ethical problems in nursing their special focus. Among the issues addressed are deception, parentalism, confidentiality, conscientious refusal, nurse autonomy, compromise, and personal responsibility for institutional and public policy. The third edition has been enlarged with new cases and case discussions related to AIDS and an additional chapter on the expanding scope of nursing ethics as it addresses issues related to scarce resources, cost containment, justice, and the possibilities of health care rationing.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 14
Cases......Page 16
1. Moral dilemmas in nursing......Page 20
2. Ethical codes: uses and limitations......Page 23
3. The fundamental question of morality......Page 27
4. Ethical inquiry......Page 28
5. Ethical autonomy and institutional-hierarchical constraints......Page 38
1. Introduction......Page 43
2. Basic ethical principles......Page 44
3. Knowledge in ethics......Page 53
4. Ethics, law, and religion......Page 61
1. Introduction......Page 69
2. Parentalism......Page 71
3. Deception......Page 80
4. Confidentiality......Page 89
5. Personal risks and professional obligations......Page 94
6. Conflicting claims......Page 97
1. Conflicts between nurse and physician......Page 104
2. Nurse autonomy......Page 114
3. Collaboration......Page 125
4. Integrity-preserving compromise......Page 129
5. Conscientious refusal......Page 133
6. Determining responsibility......Page 140
1. Tensions between nurses......Page 148
2. Respect for persons......Page 155
3. Professional obligations......Page 158
4. Administrative dilemmas......Page 166
1. The scope of individual responsibility......Page 176
2. Institutional policies and strikes......Page 180
3. Institutional ethics committees......Page 187
4. Blowing the whistle......Page 191
5. Public policy: advance directives......Page 197
6. Putting it all together......Page 199
1. Introduction......Page 205
2. Cost containment and the claims of justice......Page 207
3. Access to care......Page 212
4. The concept of rationing......Page 214
5. The Oregon proposal......Page 216
6. Toward ethical rationing......Page 220
7. Rationing and the importance of nursing care......Page 226
8. The expanding scope of nursing ethics......Page 227
APPENDIX A: International Council of Nurses Code for Nurses......Page 233
APPENDIX B: American Nurses' Association Code for Nurses......Page 235
APPENDIX C: American Hospital Association: A Patient's Bill of Rights......Page 238
APPENDIX D: Cases for Analysis......Page 241
Suggestions for Further Reading......Page 252
B......Page 258
D......Page 259
H......Page 260
M......Page 261
O......Page 262
R......Page 263
W......Page 264
Z......Page 265