Description

This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. The authors have developed a holistic approach that explores: ethics in hospital and community settings, inter-disciplinary teamwork, ward and hospital management, nursing research, performance management and the political ethics of nursing administration, health service re-structuring and reform. The content has been substantially revised for this edition and significant new material added to reflect developments in theory and practice.

Key Features

• covers a wide range of ethical issues - much more than just ‘clinical' dilemmas and decision-making skills
• a down-to-earth and practical approach to applied ethics
• user-friendly layout
• material on moral theory kept to a minimum (but dealt with thoroughly at the end of the book)
• focuses on ethical issues in nursing and case studies taken from nursing practice i.e. the concrete concerns of nurses and other front-line workers
• pedagogical features include: chapter aims, learning outcomes and further reading for possible essay, tutorial and project topics
• also useful as a general work of reference on ethic in health care

New to this Edition

• An up-to-date analysis of professions in the context of modernity, to enable health professionals to make sense of global cultural & social developments
• An analysis of the ethics of evidence-based practice
• An examination of professional accountability and ethics in performance management to help practitioners/managers understand the ethical basis of management
• useful web links and teaching notes on a dedicated website:
  http://evolve.elsevier.com/Thompson/nursingethics/

Table of Contents

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Author Information

By Ian E. Thompson, BA(Hons) PhD, Former Professor of Ethics and Philosophy, University of Notre Dame Australia; Fremantle, Western Australia & Honorary Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; Kath M. Melia, BNurs(Manc), PhD, Head of School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; Kenneth M. Boyd, Professor of Medical Ethics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; and Dorothy Horsburgh, PhD, MEd, BA(Hons,) RGN, DipCNE, RNT, RCNT, Lecturer, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK

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