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Pavadinimas: ETHICS IN NURSING
Autoriai: MARTIN BENJAMIN, JOY CURTIS
Metai: 1981
ISBN: 0195028376
Leidykla: New York ; Oxford : Oxford Univ.Press
Brūkšninis kodas: 4021494
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     Advances in medical technology, coupled with social and political changes, raise value conflicts for practicing nurses, and an increasingly important part of nursing education is the identification and analysis of ethical issues. This introductory text is designed to help students and practicing nurses recognize situations with underlying moral implications, to understand the uses and limitations of professional ethics codes, and to develop a disciplined and systematic approach to ethical inquiry.


1. Moral dilemmas and ethical inquiry 3
1. Moral dilemmas in nursing 3
2. Ethical codes: uses and limitations 6
3. The fundamental question of morality 9
4. Ethical inquiry 11
5. Ethical autonomy and institutional-hierarchial constraints 21
2. Unavoidable topics in ethical theory 26
1. Introduction 26
2. Basic ethical principles 27
3. Knowledge in ethics 36
4. Ethics, law, and religion 41
3. Nurses and clients 48
1. Introduction 48
2. Parentalism 50
3. Deception 58
4. Confidentiality 68
5. Conflicting claims 71
4. Recurring ethical issues in nurse-physician relationships 77
1. Conflicts between nurse and physician 77
2. Obedience 87
3. Conscientious refusal 92
4. Nurse autonomy 99
5. Fixing responsibility 104
5. Ethical dilemmas among nurses 111
1. Tensions between nurses 111
2. Respect of persons 118
3. Professional obligations 122
4. Administrative response to conscientious refusal 129
6. Personal responsibility for institutional and public policy 134
1. The scope of individual responsibility 134
2. Institutional policies and strikes 138
3. Public policy: the case of hospice care 146

Appendix A: International Council of Nurses Code for Nurses 153
Appendix B: American Nurses` Association Code for Nurses 155
Appendix C: American Hospital Association A Patient`s Bill of Rights 158
Appendix D: Cases for analysis 161
Suggestions for further reading 170
Index 175

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