Full Description
This edited volume comprises twenty original essays in nursing ethics by an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars, researchers, and clinicians. The volume is the first wide-ranging, advanced edited volume in nursing ethics that explores the normative foundations and frameworks of nursing ethics, philosophical views of ethical knowledge, practical identity, moral agency in nursing, and emerging ethical issues in nursing practice and health policy. Part I focuses on foundational normative issues in nursing ethics, including questions about its independence as a field of inquiry among other subfields in bioethics, its methods, and its potential contribution to forming ethical environments for healthcare professionals. Several chapters address questions surrounding the scope, reliability, and limit of nurses' ethical knowledge and expertise, and the moral and practical identities that nurses take on qua nurses. Part II focuses on emerging issues in clinical practice and nursing education, including current and anticipated ethical challenges in the care of persons, families, and communities impacted by both physical and mental health conditions are addressed. Several chapters aim to proactively identify ethical concerns posed by new developments in areas such as biotechnology, health policy, and cultural shifts.
Together, the essays in this volume provide focused, in-depth normative inquiry and analysis on central and new topics in nursing ethics, moving beyond what is typically found in a broad, comprehensive introductory text, filling a significant gap in the nursing ethics literature. These essays reinforce the field as a distinct and important subfield of both academic bioethics and clinical ethics.
Contents
Contents
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Concepts, Knowledge, and Practical Identity
1. An Argument for the Distinct Nature of Nursing Ethics
Pamela J. Grace
2. Nursing Ethics as an Independent Subfield of Healthcare Ethics
Eric Vogelstein
3. The Relevance of Feminist Ethics for Moral Communities in Healthcare Work
Joan Liaschenko and Elizabeth Peter
4. Moral Expertise and Epistemic Peerhood: Implications for Nursing Practice
Jamie Carlin Watson
5. Patient Best Interest: Why Nurses Cannot Be Expected to Know What Is Best for Their Patients
Robert M. Veatch
6. Revisiting Moral Agency
Jennifer L. Bartlett and Carol Taylor
7. A Critical Analysis of Professional Moral Competencies of Nurse Practitioners
Elizabeth Peter and Anne Simmonds
8. Designing a Culture of Ethical Practice in Health Care: A New Paradigm
Heather Fitzgerald and Cynda Hylton Rushton
9. An Ethics Lens for Nursing Leadership
Katherine Brown-Saltzman
10. Conceptions of Vulnerability within the Context of Clinical Reseach
Michael J. Deem and Judith A. Erlen
Part II: Emerging Ethical Issues in Clinical Practice
11. A Matter of Trust: Balancing Ethical Duties and Legal Obligations in the Nursing Care of Pregnant Women with Substance Use Disorder
Liz Stokes
12. The Ethical Rationale for Comprehensive Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Follow-up
Angel C. Carter and Brian S. Carter
13. Empowering Parents for Better Decision-Making: A Distinct Role for Nursing Staff in Pediatric Clinical Care
Erica K. Salter
14. Consent and My Chronically-ill Child
Emily A. Largent
15. How Confucian Values Shape the Moral Boundaries of Family Caregiving
Helen Y.L. Chan, Richard Kim, Doris Yin-ping Leung, Ho-yu Cheng, Connie Yuen-yu Chong, and Wai-tong Chien
16. Constructing Avenues for Meaningful Agency: A Role for Nurses in Caring forPersons with Disabilities
Laura Guidry-Grimes
17. Emerging Ethical Issues in Dementia Care
Jennifer H. Lingler and Jalayne J. Arias
18. Relational Autonomy: A Critical Reading for Palliative and End-of-Life Care
Philip J. Larkin
19. Help Wanted: Technology, ICU Nurses, and Death
Helen Stanton Chapple and Megan Gillen
20. Teaching with Pictures: Respect for the Vulnerable
Daniel A. Wilkenfeld and Christa Johnson
