Ethics, Law and Health Care: A guide for nurses and midwives / Edition 2

by Fiona McDonald, Shih-Ning Then

Overview

Understanding ethics and law in health care is an essential part of nurse and midwife professional standards, and a core component of qualifying programmes. Ethics, Law and Health Care teaches applied ethics and law in a way that illustrates the real world applications of these essential aspects of practice. It enables readers to not only recognise but also address legal and ethical issues that will arise in their professional practice.

The book approaches these issues using the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Codes of Ethics, the Codes of Professional Conduct and the four principles of biomedical ethics:
- Autonomy
- Non-maleficence
- Beneficence
- Justice.

Filled with case studies, review questions and useful further reading, this book gives readers a solid understanding of ethics and law in health care, and a clear decision-making framework so they can take action confidently.

Please note, this book is written specifically for the Australian market.

New to this Edition:
- A new chapter on health, law, ethics and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
- Illustrated with 'real world' applications, the bookensures students understand how core components of the nursing and midwifery curriculum are put in to practice
- Copies of the Codes of Ethics and Professional Conduct for Nurses and Midwives are provided as appendixes for ease of reference

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781352005394
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/15/2019
Edition description:	2nd ed. 2019
Pages:	387
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.84(d)

About the Author

Fiona McDonald is an Associate Professor within the Faculty of Law at Queensland University of Technology and is Co-Director of the Australian Centre for Health Law Research. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Bioethics at Dalhousie University, Canada. She teaches in the area of health law and ethics to law students and a range of health professionals.
Shih-Ning Then is a Senior Lecturer within the Faculty of Law at Queensland University of Technology and is a member of the Australian Centre for Health Law Research. She teaches in the area of health law and ethics to law students and a range of health professionals.
Fiona McDonald is an Associate Professor within the Faculty of Law at Queensland University of Technology and is Co-Director of the Australian Centre for Health Law Research. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Bioethics at Dalhousie University, Canada. She teaches in the area of health law and ethics to law students and a range of health professionals.

Shih-Ning Then is a Senior Lecturer within the Faculty of Law at Queensland University of Technology and is a member of the Australian Centre for Health Law Research. She teaches in the area of health law and ethics to law students and a range of health professionals.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Ethics and Law
Chapter 2: Ethics and ethical and legal decision-making frameworks
Chapter 3: The Australian legal system
Chapter 4: Ethics, law and nursing and midwifery practice
Chapter 5: Adult patients-Consent and refusal of consent
Chapter 6: Children as patients
Chapter 7 Law, ethics and health information management
Chapter 8: Patient safety and negligence
Chapter 9: Ethics, law and mental health
Chapter 10: Ethics, law and the elderly
Chapter 11: End-of-life issues
Chapter 12: Issues relevant to reproduction, pregnancy and the birth of a child
Chapter 13: Ethics, law and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients
Appendixes
Code of conduct for nurses
Code of conduct for midwives
Where to find the International Council of Nurses Code of Ethics and the International Confederation of Midwives Code of Ethics.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

We use this text and have done for the last two years. I don’t recommend any other texts as this one covers both law and ethics. It covers them in an easy to engage with manner, and the focus is on safe and appropriate practice for nurses and midwives. – Matt Mason, Lecturer, School of Nursing, Midwifery & Paramedicine, University of the Sunshine Coast

This is written in a clear and concise style, is easy to read and is relevant to the Australian health care setting. The use of various examples of actual cases to illustrate points throughout the book is also a great help to the students and can also be used to stimulate discussion. – Ron Picard, Lecturer in Nursing, La Trobe Rural Health School

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Addison S Tenorio, BA, MA (Saint Louis University)
Description: Fifteen years since the first edition, this book addresses a relatively new issue in bioethics of inclusion of children in research. The second edition updates are dramatic in light of technological developments that have brought about additional ethical concerns; no chapters were maintained from the original edition, only contributors and their themes.
Purpose: The purpose is to supplement the first edition and offer further education surrounding research with children. This is accomplished through the book's case-based approach that complements traditional medical education. The book also features an analysis following each chapter to assist readers in digesting the cases, accompanied by discussion questions intended to aid readers in developing their ability to reason through a typical ethical scenario.
Audience: The book is intended to educate medical ethics students, IRB members, pediatric investigators, sponsors, and policymakers. It is also intended to help parents and their children. Because of a) the method of teaching and b) the specific case studies that are offered, the book fails to provide the parental support intended by the authors. It does not offer a broad overview of what it means to enroll one's child in research, and what rights and responsibilities participants and their parents have. The authors and contributors are well qualified, with expertise ranging from philosophy to ethics to medicine. None of the contributors are singularly affiliated with an IRB, which was an oversight on behalf of the authors.
Features: The book features cases that span an array of issues faced by researchers engaged with children, ranging from biobanking to neonatal support to assent. This edition removes the limited, basic visual aids present in the first edition, but maintains the use of thought-provoking discussion questions that conclude each chapter.
Assessment: This book certainly supplements the previous edition, presenting up-to-date case studies and succeeding as a pedagogical aid. Its discussion questions make it an appropriate tool for education. The case studies are unique and offer readers a diverse lens through which to view research with children.

Doody's Review Service

We use this text and have done for the last two years. I don't recommend any other texts as this one covers both law and ethics. It covers them in an easy to engage with manner, and the focus is on safe and appropriate practice for nurses and midwives.” —Matt Mason, Lecturer, School of Nursing, Midwifery & Paramedicine, University of the Sunshine Coast

“This is written in a clear and concise style, is easy to read and is relevant to the Australian health care setting. The use of various examples of actual cases to illustrate points throughout the book is also a great help to the students and can also be used to stimulate discussion.” —Ron Picard, Lecturer in Nursing, La Trobe Rural Health School

From the Publisher