Original PDF Ebook – Bioethics8th EditionA Nursing Perspective – 9780729544283

Original PDF Ebook – Bioethics8th EditionA Nursing Perspective – 9780729544283

Now in its eighth edition, Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective provides practical guidance on the ethical issues you might come across in nursing practice, with real-world examples that help to bring this important subject to life._x000D_
Author Dr Megan-Jane Johnstone AO, Australia’s foremost nursing ethics scholar, provides a comprehensive framework for negotiating the ethical challenges, obligations and responsibilities you might face. The text is engaging and easy to follow, and has been fully updated to reflect current issues in health care such as nurse practitioner assisted dying, pandemic ethics, and the moral costs of misinformation and medical conspiracy theories. ._x000D_
This book is a suitable companion to the law and ethics components of both undergraduate and postgraduate nursing studies, and is relevant for all nurses who encounter ethical problems in their everyday practice._x000D_
Written in an engaging style – suitable for undergraduate as well as postgraduate students and researchers_x000D_
Focuses on prominent and topical ethical issues facing individual nurses as well as the broader profession_x000D_
Covers a broad range of bioethical issues in health care and how these relate to various fundamental traditions in philosophical ethics_x000D_
Real-life case studies and hypothetical scenarios to encourage debate_x000D_
Covers hot topics in modern nursing practice, including:_x000D_
Professional standards_x000D_
How to make moral decisions_x000D_
Cross-cultural ethics, including the problem of racism_x000D_
Dehumanisation and vulnerable populations_x000D_
Patient rights_x000D_
Mental health care ethics_x000D_
End-of-life care_x000D_
Moral politics of abortion and euthanasia_x000D_
Moral lessons of COVID-19