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Ethics in nursing practice / Graham Rumbold.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Edinburgh : Baillière Tindall, 1999.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xi, 275p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780702023125 (pbk.) :
  • 0702023124
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 174.2 RUM
LOC classification:
  • RT85 .R79 1999
Contents:
What is nursing ethics? -- What is right? -- Cultural influences on ethial decision-making -- Sanctity of life versus quality of life -- For the good of whom? -- Duties, rights, responsibilities -- Death and dying -- The unborn child -- Hospitals should do the patient no harm -- Confidentiality -- To tell or not to tell -- The nurse-doctor relationship -- Is it fair? -- Beneficence, non-maleficence and autonomy -- The vulnerable patient -- The rights of the nurse.
Summary: This third edition of the nursing ethics book has been revised to incorporate the vast array of the current ethico-legal issues to emerge in nursing and health care. It also covers the differentiation between nursing and medical ethics.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 174.2 RUM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 119870

Previous ed.: 1993.

Published in association with the Royal College of Nursing.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is nursing ethics? -- What is right? -- Cultural influences on ethial decision-making -- Sanctity of life versus quality of life -- For the good of whom? -- Duties, rights, responsibilities -- Death and dying -- The unborn child -- Hospitals should do the patient no harm -- Confidentiality -- To tell or not to tell -- The nurse-doctor relationship -- Is it fair? -- Beneficence, non-maleficence and autonomy -- The vulnerable patient -- The rights of the nurse.

This third edition of the nursing ethics book has been revised to incorporate the vast array of the current ethico-legal issues to emerge in nursing and health care. It also covers the differentiation between nursing and medical ethics.

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