Nursing Law and Ethics

✍ Scribed by A. Carmi (auth.), Amnon Carmi, Prof. Dr. Stanley Schneider (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 246
• Series: Medicolegal Library 4
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The papers in this section on the legal aspects of nursing can be divided into two parts: (a) the rights and responsibilities of nurses, patients, and the medical system and (b) treatment, with its legal ramifications. How does one decide whether patients' rights or the health professional's rights are to be considered more seriously? Is there an absolute "right" or "wrong"? Since legal rights are sanctioned by constantly changing social and political climates, this may, in effect, diminish the possibility of anything absolute. The question of the "equivalency" of legal and moral rights is also addressed. Due to the prevalent vagueness with regard to bioethical issues as they affect hu­ man and legal rights, often we become absorbed in philosophical polemics without being able to arrive at anyone answer. In order to move beyond the ethical/theoret­ ical fonnulations, there is daily confrontation in the nursing profession -the practi­ cal application of theoretics.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Nursing: State, Status and Statutes....Pages 3-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-13
Human Rights in the Nurse-Patient Relationship....Pages 14-21
Whats Wrong About Rights....Pages 22-27
Medical Care: The Problem of Autonomy....Pages 28-29
Rights and Responsibilities of Nurses as the Basis for Their Contracts with Society, with Patients, and with Colleagues....Pages 30-38
Legal Implications of Standards of Nursing Care....Pages 39-44
Practice and Malpractice....Pages 45-53
Legal Aspects of Surgery in England....Pages 54-55
Legal and Moral Rights of Mentally Ill People: A Critical Argument....Pages 56-60
Involuntary Sterilization of the Mentally Retarded: Curtailing Procreation Rights of Persons with Diminished Capability to Claim Rights....Pages 61-66
Informed Consent....Pages 67-69
Issues of Confidentiality in Health Care....Pages 70-74
Father-Daughter Incest: Who Owns the Child?....Pages 75-81
Prosecutors or Defenders: With Whom Should Clinicians Align?....Pages 82-88
Front Matter....Pages 89-91
Moral Dilemmas in Nursing....Pages 93-97
Law or Ethics: Which of Them Should Regulate Nursing Practice?....Pages 98-101
Should Nurses Study Ethics?....Pages 103-108
The Work Environment as a Factor in Continous Ethical Training....Pages 109-114
Aspects of Ethics in Nursing Research....Pages 115-121
The Ethics in Nursing Research....Pages 122-125
Front Matter....Pages 89-91
Implication of Ethics and Nursing Research for Patient Advocacy....Pages 126-131
Ethics and Research into Nursing Practice....Pages 132-135
Ethical Considerations for the Nurse Ethnographer Doing Field Research in Clinical Settings....Pages 136-143
Attitude of Nurses to Euthanasia of Terminally Ill Patients....Pages 144-150
A Framework for Resolving Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing Education....Pages 151-159
Social and Role Constraints on Ethical Decision Making by Nurses in Hospital....Pages 160-164
A Simulation Game: A Tool for Teaching Ethical Decision Making to Student Nurses in Israel....Pages 165-169
A Foundation for Nursing Ethics....Pages 170-177
Ethical Imperatives in Nursing....Pages 178-183
Ethical Considerations in the Care of Dying Patients....Pages 184-187
Ethical Problems in the Assessment of the Quality of Care....Pages 188-190
Ethical Issues in the Care of the Elderly Under Socialised Medicine....Pages 191-196
Feeding Problems....Pages 197-199
Front Matter....Pages 201-203
The Economics of Caring....Pages 205-209
Illness: A Time of Stress Involving the Relationship Between the Individual Personality and Cultural Backround....Pages 210-215
Nursing in Jewish Medical Ethics: Visiting the Sick....Pages 216-219
Ministering to the Sick....Pages 220-224
The Implication of Radical Christian Philosophy for Nursing Ethics....Pages 225-229
Front Matter....Pages 231-233
The Dependent, Independent and Interdependent Functions of the Nurse Practitioner: A Legal and Ethical Perspective....Pages 235-242
The Changing Role of Nurses and Its Implications....Pages 243-245
Back Matter....Pages 246-248

✦ Subjects

Forensic Medicine; Medical Law; Nursing