Overview
- Focuses on the ethical dimension of live, contemporary issues in nursing care
- Offers detailed vignettes from a real patient/nursing context or practice-based research study
- Discusses the key ethical issues and potential approaches
- Contributors, by design, come from various clinical, education, literature, moral philosophy and health ethics backgrounds
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Short case studies, based on real stories from the health care arena, ensure that each chapter of this book is rooted in descriptions of nursing practise that are grounded, salient narratives of nursing care. The reader is assisted to explore the ethical dimension of nursing practice: what it is and how it can be portrayed, discussed, and analysed within a variety of practice and theoretical contexts. One of the unique contributions of this book is to consider nursing not only in the context of the individual nurse – patient relationship but also as a social good that is of necessity limited, due to the ultimate limits on the nursing and health care resource. This book will help the reader consider what good nursing looks like, both within the context of limitations on resources and under conditions of scarcity.
Indeed, any discussion of ethical issues in nursing should be well grounded in a conceptualisation of nursing that nursing students and practising nursing can recognise, accept and engage with. Nursing, like medicine, social work and teaching has a clear moral aim – to do good. In the case of nursing to do good for the patient. However it is vital that in the pressurised, constrained health service of the 21st century, we help nurses explore what this might mean for nursing practice and what can reasonably be expected of the individual nurse in terms of good nursing care.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Prof. Scott is an experienced PhD supervisor and examiner. She made some recent external examining appointments with Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (March 2015), University of Stirling (April 2014), University of York (2009). She also received many research grants and wrote many articles on an international scale.
Anne has been a member of a number ofResearch Funding Agencies and Health service agencies in Ireland – Board member of the Health Research Board, Founding member of the Irish Council for Bioethics, Board member of the Health Service Executive (Ireland). Currently, Anne is a member of the Board of Governors of the Royal Liverpool and Broad Greed Hospitals NHS Trust.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Key Concepts and Issues in Nursing Ethics
Editors: P. Anne Scott
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49250-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-49249-0Published: 04 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84114-4Published: 08 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-49250-6Published: 08 March 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 221
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 223 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nursing, Ethics, Public Health, Practice and Hospital Management