Nursing ethics / Ian E. Thompson, Kath M. Melia, Kenneth M. Boyd.

Previous ed.: 1994.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1: The social context of nursing values--1. Moral issues in nursing and the ethics of nursing care--2. Becoming and being a nurse--3. Responsibility and accountability in nursing--4. Power-sharing and personal values in nursing ethics--SECTION 2: Practical applications of nursing ethics--5. What are the key moral issues in health care--6. Moral dilemmas in direct nurse-patient relationships--7. Moral dilemmas in nursing groups of patients. SECTION3: Ethics in health policy and administration--8. Nurses and society: responsibility for managing resources--9. Nurses and society: agents of health and a social policy. SECTION4: decision-making a moral theory--10. Making moral decisions and being able to justify them--11. The relevance of moral theory: justifying our ethical policies-- Section 5: Nursing ethics- Retrospect and prospect--12. Nursing and nursing ethics into the 21st century.

The aim of this text is to explain ethical concepts by using examples, issues and problems. It starts at the level of the individual, then moves on to broader issues of nursing management and social policy issues.