Full Description
Interprofessional teams of Health and social care professionals encounter, and respond to, significant ethical challenges and complexity in their everyday work. This scenario-based book explores how to enact ethical values and virtues, while working across the four pillars of professional activity - practice, education, leadership and research. Effective responses to care needs and everyday complexity require teamwork and a holistic approach to individual, family and community needs. They require a health and social professional having an in-depth appreciation of their own professional role, responsibilities and contribution, as well as those of other professions.
This book enables readers to engage with, and reflect on, a range of ethical decision-making situations that can occur across the lifecourse and impact interprofessional teams. Each chapter is based around a particular authentic scenarios derived from the experiences of care-recipients and family members involved in the co-production of the book and take place in a range of care contexts - from maternity care to community; from hospital to residential care; and from accident and emergency areas to hospice.
Introducing and discussing interprofessional issues from an ethical stance, this is an essential text for health and social care students and practitioners and a resource for IPE facilitators with a commitment to ethics in health and social care practice, research, education and leadership.
Contents
1. Interprofessional Ethics Across the Life Course in Health and Social Care: A Story-Based Approach, 2. Introducing Interprofessionalism, 3. Introducing Approaches to Health and Social Care Ethics, 4. Perinatal Care: Navigating Ethical Complexities in Maternity and Postnatal Practice, 5. Ethics, Interprofessionalism, and Neonatal Care, 6. Care of Children with Complex Needs in Low-Income Families, 7. Mental Health, Adoption and Young People, 8. Balancing Professional Duties with Family Caregiving: Ethical and Behavioural Perspectives on Supporting Young Carers, 9. Inclusive learning for health and social care students on campus and in practice, 10. Battling on two fronts: interprofessional and ethical considerations surrounding military veterans transitioning to civilian life and care, 11. Capacity and Choice in Complex Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Ethical considerations focussing on capacity and the right to choose, 12. Recovery from traumatic injury: adjustment, identity and truth-telling, 13. Working with older people in health and social care - Interprofessional practice and decision making, 14. Integrated interprofessional end-of-life and palliative care exploring the concept of going home to die, 15. Interprofessional ethics in health and social care