Ethics in nursing practice / Graham Rumbold.
Material type: TextPublication details: Edinburgh : Baillière Tindall, 1999.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xi, 275p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780702023125 (pbk.) :
- 0702023124
- 174.2 RUM
- RT85 .R79 1999
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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.