Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective

by Megan-Jane Johnstone AO, PhD, BA, RN

Overview

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.

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. .

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.

• Written in an engaging style – suitable for undergraduate as well as postgraduate students and researchers
• Focuses on prominent and topical ethical issues facing individual nurses as well as the broader profession
• Covers a broad range of bioethical issues in health care and how these relate to various fundamental traditions in philosophical ethics
• Real-life case studies and hypothetical scenarios to encourage debate
• Covers hot topics in modern nursing practice, including:
• Professional standards
• How to make moral decisions
• Cross-cultural ethics, including the problem of racism
• Dehumanisation and vulnerable populations
• Patient rights
• Mental health care ethics
• End-of-life care
• Moral politics of abortion and euthanasia
• Moral lessons of COVID-19

Additional resources on Evolve

eBook on VitalSource

• Questions fostering critical reflection to support learning
• Key points and new chapter groupings for easy navigation
• New chapter on pandemic ethics

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780729544283
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	02/20/2023
Edition description:	8th ed.
Pages:	422
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Table of Contents

1. Professional standards and the requirement to be ethical
2. Ethics, bioethics and nursing ethics: some working definitions
3. Moral theory and the ethical practice of nursing
4. Moral problems in nursing and health care contexts
5. Moral decision making in nursing and health care
6. Cross-cultural ethics and the ethical practice of nursing
7. Ethics, dehumanisation and vulnerable populations
8. Patients’ rights to and in health care
9. Ethical issues in mental health care
10. Ethical issues in end-of-life care
11. The moral politics of abortion and euthanasia
12. Professional judgment, moral quandaries and taking ‘appropriate action’
13. Professional obligations to report harmful behaviours: risks to patient safety, child abuse and elder abuse
14. Pandemic ethics
15. Ethics and public health emergencies: climate change, AMR, health inequities, and emergency preparedness

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Written by Australia’s foremost nursing ethics scholar, Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective comprehensibly addresses the ethical challenges, obligations and responsibilities nurses will encounter in practice

Editorial Reviews

"This book is a rich resource containing many interesting case examples, with the inclusion of some novel perspectives on contemporary bioethical issues. Each chapter has learning objectives and keywords, which should be helpful for those using the book as a study resource...It is suitable for people who wish to widen their understanding of a number of topics in bioethics, as well as offering interesting material for those who need to study in more depth. It also adds to the growing literature voicing a more distinctive perspective in nursing ethics." Nursing Ethics, March 2010

From the Publisher