Full Description
**Selected for 2025 Doody's Core Titles® in Legal/Ethical**
Learn how to think beyond the theoretical in any environment. Ethics & Issues in Contemporary Nursing, 2nd Edition examines the latest trends, principles, theories, and models in patient care to help you learn how to make ethically sound decisions in complex and often controversial situations. Written from a global perspective, examples throughout the text reflect current national and international issues inviting you to explore cases considering socio-cultural influences, personal values, and professional ethics. Historical examples demonstrate how to think critically while upholding moral and professional standards, as well as the law. Key topics throughout explore advocacy and rights, diversity, nurse burnout, mass casualty events, effects of the COVID pandemic, health equity, social media, violence in the workplace, medication error prevention, opioid and other substance use, HIPAA, and healthcare reform. In addition, this title contains supplemental case studies and review questions to further challenge and prepare you to make morally sound decisions in any healthcare setting.
NEW! Content on the latest developments in nursing includes coverage of The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity report, resiliency, burnout, and nurses in wartime
NEW! Focused linking of the content of each chapter with sections of professional nursing codes of ethics provides guidance for dealing with ethical dilemmas
NEW! Scenarios of the Pandemic boxes explore the impact of ethical dilemmas on nurses during the COVID pandemic
EXPANDED! Additional information enhances content on delegation, moral uncertainty, health care for transgender patients, the impact of technology on nursing care and decisions, global consciousness and vaccine hesitance, immigration, and refugee issues
UPDATED! Current coverage addresses key health policy issues
UPDATED! Nursing Ethics, Social Issues, and Health Disparities chapter features the latest developments in those areas
Straightforward and conversational writing style makes the content interesting and understandable
Case studies and review questions on the Evolve companion website help you apply the concepts learned from the text
More than 60 case presentations present scenarios from real-life situations
Think About It exercises help you explore different facets of cases
Ask Yourself questions challenge you to balance information in the text along with personal values and those of the nursing profession
Summary and chapter highlights present an overview of key chapter content
Discussion questions and activities allow you to further explore issues and ethics
Contents
PART I Guides for Principled Behavior
1. Social, Philosophical, and Other Historical Forces Influencing the Evolution of Nursing Ethics
2. Theories of Ethics
3. Ethical Principles
PART II Developing Principled Behavior: Acquiring, Internalizing, and Applying Moral Values
4. Values Clarification for Ethical Nursing Practice
5. Moral Development: Acquiring Moral Reasoning, Values, and Behaviors
6. Ethics and the Professionalization of Nursing
7. Ethical Decision Making
PART III Principled Behavior in the Professional Domain
8. Nursing Ethics and the Law
9. Ethics and Professional Relationships
10. Ethical Issues Related to Selected Healthcare Technologies
11. Ethical Issues Related to Patient Self-Determination
12. Ethical Issues Related to Nursing Education, Research, and Scholarship
PART IV Nursing Ethics, Global Health Care Challenges, and Social Justice
13. Nursing Ethics in a Diverse Global Society
14. Nursing Ethics and Health Policy Issues
15. Ethical Implications of Healthcare Economics
16. Nursing Ethics, Social Issues, and Health Disparities
17. Gender Issues and Nursing Ethics
18. Ethical Issues Related to Transcultural and Spiritual Care
PART V Power to Make a Difference
19. The Power of Ethical Nursing
20. The Empowered Nurse
