Quick Look Nursing: Ethics and Conflict: Ethics and Conflict / Edition 2

by Kathleen Ouimet Perrin, James McGhee

Overview

Quick Look Nursing: Ethics and Conflict, Second Edition presents ethical issues and case studies from the perspective of nurses. It guides nurses on what to do when patients, family, and physicians have varying perspectives on what care should be provided and when and how they should intervene to protect an elderly person from a hazardous living situation. This text is the ideal quick reference to prepare nurses for health care ethical dilemmas of health care in today’s complex environment.Topics include: * Justice in the allocation of health care services (including nursing services) * Patient safety addressed with a discussion of how to respond to errors made by members of the health care team * Issue s inherent in group decision making for a patient Important pedagogical features: * Critical thinking questions and multiple case studies in each chapter * Quick look at chapter ahead * Highlighted key points * NCLEX-Style Questions

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781449603304
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	07/15/2010
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	257
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Kathleen Ouimet Perrin, PhD, RN, is Professor Emerita of Nursing at Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire, where she has taught courses in critical care nursing, professional nursing, understanding suffering, and evidence based practice to baccalaureate and RN to BSN students. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; her master's from Boston College; and her doctoral degree from the Union Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio. Her primary areas of interest and publication are critical care nursing, ethical issues, nursing history, and suffering experienced by patients and healthcare providers.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Health Care Ethics
Chapter 2: Encountering an Ethical Dilemma
Chapter 3: Beginning of Life Issue s
Chapter 4: Health Maintenance Across the Life Span
Chapter 5: How Should Health Care Resources be Allocated?
Chapter 6: Encountering Unjust, Incompetent, or Illegal Behavior
Chapter 7: Ethical Issue s at the End of Life
Appendix A: American Nurses Association Code of Ethics for Nurses