Now in its sixth edition, this highly popular text covers the range of ethical issues affecting nurses and other healthcare professionals. Authors Simon Robinson and Owen Doody take a holistic and practical approach, focused in the dialogue of ethical decision making and how this connects professional, leadership and governance ethics in the modern healthcare environment. This focuses on the responsibility of professionals and leaders, and the importance of shared responsibility in the practice of healthcare.
With a foreword by the eminent medical ethicist Alastair Campbell, the revised edition includes contemporary topics, such as the duty of candour, recent cases, such as the Mid Staffs scandal, and ethical perspectives on vulnerable groups, such as; persons with intellectual/learning disability, dementia and those with an enduring mental illness. It builds on professional identity and personal development as part of ongoing learning, individual and organizational, and provides interactive ways that helps the reader to develop reflective ethical practice. This text aims to enable ethical engagement with the ever changing healthcare environment, and is a must-have for anyone serious about ethics in healthcare.
1. Introduction - p. xv 2. Part 1: The Nature of Healthcare Ethics - p. xxiv 3. Chapter 1. The Nursing Profession: Its Value and Values - p. 3 4. Chapter 2. Making Decisions: The Ethical Dimension - p. 23 5. Chapter 3. Whose Responsibility Is It? - p. 50 6. Part 2: The Practice of Healthcare Ethics - p. 75 7. Chapter 4. Ethical Dilemmas in Practice - p. 78 8. Chapter 5. Responsibilities and Rights in Nurse–Patient/Client Relationships - p. 104 9. Chapter 6. Conflicting Demands in Patient/Client Groups - p. 124 10. Chapter 7. Ethics in Healthcare Research and Teaching - p. 148 11. Part 3: Ethics, Leadership and Management in Healthcare - p. 179 12. Chapter 8. Ethical Leadership - p. 182 13. Chapter 9. Ethical Governance - p. 210 14. Chapter 10. Public Health Ethics and the Social and Political Ethics of Healthcare - p. 240 15. Chapter 11. Normative Ethics - p. 266 16. Appendix. Resources - p. 290 17. Subject Index - p. 298
Now in its sixth edition, this highly popular text covers the range of ethical issues affecting nurses and other healthcare professionals. Authors Simon Robinson and Owen Doody take a holistic and practical approach, focused in the dialogue of ethical decision making and how this connects professional, leadership and governance ethics in the modern healthcare environment. This focuses on the responsibility of professionals and leaders, and the importance of shared responsibility in the practice of healthcare.
With a foreword by the eminent medical ethicist Alastair Campbell, the revised edition includes contemporary topics, such as the duty of candour, recent cases, such as the Mid Staffs scandal, and ethical perspectives on vulnerable groups, such as; persons with intellectual/learning disability, dementia and those with an enduring mental illness. It builds on professional identity and personal development as part of ongoing learning, individual and organizational, and provides interactive ways that helps the reader to develop reflective ethical practice. This text aims to enable ethical engagement with the ever changing healthcare environment, and is a must-have for anyone serious about ethics in healthcare.
1. Introduction - p. xv 2. Part 1: The Nature of Healthcare Ethics - p. xxiv 3. Chapter 1. The Nursing Profession: Its Value and Values - p. 3 4. Chapter 2. Making Decisions: The Ethical Dimension - p. 23 5. Chapter 3. Whose Responsibility Is It? - p. 50 6. Part 2: The Practice of Healthcare Ethics - p. 75 7. Chapter 4. Ethical Dilemmas in Practice - p. 78 8. Chapter 5. Responsibilities and Rights in Nurse–Patient/Client Relationships - p. 104 9. Chapter 6. Conflicting Demands in Patient/Client Groups - p. 124 10. Chapter 7. Ethics in Healthcare Research and Teaching - p. 148 11. Part 3: Ethics, Leadership and Management in Healthcare - p. 179 12. Chapter 8. Ethical Leadership - p. 182 13. Chapter 9. Ethical Governance - p. 210 14. Chapter 10. Public Health Ethics and the Social and Political Ethics of Healthcare - p. 240 15. Chapter 11. Normative Ethics - p. 266 16. Appendix. Resources - p. 290 17. Subject Index - p. 298
