Overview
- Contains information for healthcare personnel facing ethical issues in the course of their work
- Discusses the concerns faced by nurses internationally
- Provides tools for developing confidence and skill in ethical decision making
Part of the book series: The International Library of Bioethics (ILB, volume 93)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Foundations of Professional and Clinical Ethics
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Essential Knowledge and Skills for Ethical Deliberations
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Ethical Issues Associated with Practice and Research
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Back Matter
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About this book
This handbook provides tools for nurse educators, ethics educators, practicing nurses and allied health professionals for developing confidence and skill in ethical decision making in interdisciplinary settings such as acute and chronic care hospitals and clinics. It is useful for all healthcare personnel who face ethical issues in the course of their work and who work with nurses to resolve these issues. While the content is based on a US context, the concerns of nurses internationally are discussed and emphasized. Nurses working in acute and chronic care settings face many obstacles to providing good care and are often the first line of defense related to patient safety and meeting the needs of patients and their families. Some of the obstacles to optimal patient care are institutional, some sociocultural, and others the result of inadequate communication. Evidence points to the idea that while nurses do have the knowledge and skills to address practice problems of various sorts, they may not be confident in their skills of ethical decision making and advocacy actions. This is a resource to develop moral agency on behalf of individuals and to address broader barriers to good care raised at the local, community, or social levels.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Aimee Milliken, PhD, RN is a Clinical Associate Professor at the William F. Connell School of Nursing at Boston College. She is formerly the Executive Director of the Ethics Service at a large academic medical center in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She practiced as a critical care nurse for over a decade. She received her PhD from Boston College and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in clinical ethics. She has published and presented nationally and internationally on the topics of nursing ethics and clinical ethics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Clinical Ethics Handbook for Nurses
Book Subtitle: Emphasizing Context, Communication and Collaboration
Editors: Pamela Grace, Aimee Milliken
Series Title: The International Library of Bioethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-2155-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-2153-8Published: 05 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-2155-2Published: 05 May 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-9186
Series E-ISSN: 2662-9194
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 258
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ethics, Nursing Management, Primary Care Medicine, Nursing Research