Law, Ethics and Professional Issues for Nursing
eBook - ePub

Law, Ethics and Professional Issues for Nursing

A Reflective and Portfolio-Building Approach

  1. 334 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Law, Ethics and Professional Issues for Nursing

A Reflective and Portfolio-Building Approach

About this book

This comprehensive new textbook covers core ethical and legal content for pre-registration nursing students. It provides readers with a sound understanding of the interrelationships between the NMC's code of conduct, standards and competencies, ethics and relevant sections of the English legal system.

The only truly integrated text in the field, it opens with overviews of law and nursing, and ethical theories and nursing. It goes on to explore key areas of contention – such as negligence, confidentiality and consent – from legal and ethical perspectives, mapping the discussion onto the NMC code of conduct. The chapters include objectives, patient-focused case scenarios, key points, activities, questions, areas for reflection, further reading and a summary. Case law and statutes and ethical theories are presented where appropriate.

Written by an experienced nurse-lecturer with a law and ethics teaching background, Law, Ethics and Professional Issues for Nursing is essential reading for all pre-registration nursing students, as well as students of other healthcare professions.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780415618892
eBook ISBN
9781136504037
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Law, Ethics and Professional Issues for Nursing
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of tables
  9. List of boxes
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Table of cases
  12. Table of statutes and statutory instruments
  13. 1 Introduction: value to nursing students
  14. 2 Applying professional codes, laws and moral principles
  15. 3 Nurses and the law
  16. 4 Introduction to the English legal system
  17. 5 Consent: legal, ethical and professional issues
  18. 6 Confidentiality: legal, ethical and professional dimensions
  19. 7 Negligence in healthcare
  20. 8 Ethics in nursing: the case for ethics
  21. 9 The importance of ethical practice
  22. 10 Ethical theories part I: principlism
  23. 11 Ethical theories part II: deontology, teleology and caring ethics
  24. 12 Record keeping
  25. 13 Caring for older people
  26. 14 Child protection: legal, ethical and professional issues
  27. 15 Mental health law (WRITTEN BY HERMAN H . WHEELER AND CHRISTOPHER WAGGSTAFF)
  28. References
  29. Index