Bioethical decision making in nursing / Gladys L. Husted, James H. Husted, Carrie J. Scotto, Kimberly M. Wolf.

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Husted, Gladys L [author]

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Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Springer Publishing Company, 2015Edition: 5th edDescription: 1 online resource (xv, 287 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780826171443
0826171443
9780826130143
0826130143

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DDC classification:

174.2 23

LOC classification:

RT85 .H87 2015eb

NLM classification:

WY 85

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Contents:

Ethical foundations -- The ethical journey taken by patient and nurse -- The nurse/patient agreement -- The bioethical standards and their role as preconditions of the agreement -- The nature of the ethical context -- Contemporary ethical systems -- Nursing practice intersections: legal decision making within a symphonological ethical perspective / Suzanne Edgett Collins -- Practice-based ethics and the bioethical standards as lenses -- Moral distress -- The power of analysis through extremes -- Elements of human autonomy -- Virtues as resources.

Summary: Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title!. ""This book provides a systematic approach to bioethical decision making, a process that can help clarify situations where right and wrong are not clearly defined. This [is] a valuable book for ethics and theory courses. "" Score: 100, 5 stars. --Doody's. More relevant today than ever, Husted and Husted's classic nursing ethics text provides a practical framework to help nurses engage with patients to make difficult ethical decisions. It delivers a systematic approach to bioethical decision-making that can help clarify situations where ""right"" and ""wrong""

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Computer Files - cmm	TNU, Faculty of Nursing and Health Science Internet	Link to resource	Available

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title!. ""This book provides a systematic approach to bioethical decision making, a process that can help clarify situations where right and wrong are not clearly defined. This [is] a valuable book for ethics and theory courses. "" Score: 100, 5 stars. --Doody's. More relevant today than ever, Husted and Husted's classic nursing ethics text provides a practical framework to help nurses engage with patients to make difficult ethical decisions. It delivers a systematic approach to bioethical decision-making that can help clarify situations where ""right"" and ""wrong""