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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.

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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