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.
Table of Contents
ContentsContributors PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I: Concepts, Knowledge, and Practical Identity1. An Argument for the Distinct Nature of Nursing Ethics Pamela J. Grace2. Nursing Ethics as an Independent Subfield of Healthcare EthicsEric Vogelstein 3. The Relevance of Feminist Ethics for Moral Communities in Healthcare WorkJoan Liaschenko and Elizabeth Peter4. Moral Expertise and Epistemic Peerhood: Implications for Nursing PracticeJamie Carlin Watson5. Patient Best Interest: Why Nurses Cannot Be Expected to Know What Is Best for Their PatientsRobert M. Veatch6. Revisiting Moral AgencyJennifer L. Bartlett and Carol Taylor7. A Critical Analysis of Professional Moral Competencies of Nurse Practitioners Elizabeth Peter and Anne Simmonds8. Designing a Culture of Ethical Practice in Health Care: A New ParadigmHeather Fitzgerald and Cynda Hylton Rushton9. An Ethics Lens for Nursing LeadershipKatherine Brown-Saltzman 10. Conceptions of Vulnerability within the Context of Clinical ReseachMichael J. Deem and Judith A. ErlenPart II: Emerging Ethical Issues in Clinical Practice11. A Matter of Trust: Balancing Ethical Duties and Legal Obligations in the Nursing Care of Pregnant Women with Substance Use DisorderLiz Stokes12. The Ethical Rationale for Comprehensive Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Follow-up Angel C. Carter and Brian S. Carter13. Empowering Parents for Better Decision-Making: A Distinct Role for Nursing Staff in Pediatric Clinical CareErica K. Salter14. Consent and My Chronically-ill ChildEmily A. Largent15. How Confucian Values Shape the Moral Boundaries of Family CaregivingHelen Y.L. Chan, Richard Kim, Doris Yin-ping Leung, Ho-yu Cheng, Connie Yuen-yu Chong, and Wai-tong Chien16. Constructing Avenues for Meaningful Agency: A Role for Nurses in Caring forPersons with DisabilitiesLaura Guidry-Grimes17. Emerging Ethical Issues in Dementia Care Jennifer H. Lingler and Jalayne J. Arias18. Relational Autonomy: A Critical Reading for Palliative and End-of-Life CarePhilip J. Larkin19. Help Wanted: Technology, ICU Nurses, and DeathHelen Stanton Chapple and Megan Gillen20. Teaching with Pictures: Respect for the VulnerableDaniel A. Wilkenfeld and Christa Johnson
