Ethics in nursing the caring relationship

This new edition of a highly regarded standard text continues to focus on an ethic of care, while significantly enhancing and strengthening its theoretical basis. Extensively revised and updated in both content and approach, the third edition: o addresses many of the current pressing issues in nurs...

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Main Author: Tschudin, Verena (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edingburgh New York Butterworth-Heinemann 2003.
Edition:Third Edition
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Summary:This new edition of a highly regarded standard text continues to focus on an ethic of care, while significantly enhancing and strengthening its theoretical basis. Extensively revised and updated in both content and approach, the third edition: o addresses many of the current pressing issues in nursing o emphasises the importance of relationships in health care o examines the process of decision making o uses an four-questions model for ethical decision making o offers material to stimulate discussion o considers the international dimensions of nursing ethics o includes the newly published NMC Code of Professional Conduct 2002 For nurses who practise primary nursing and who are therefore in a special relationship with their patients, this book is particularly appropriate. However, any nurse, whether qualified or in training, will find it easy to read, constructive and thought-provoking.Places ethics within the caring context of nursing
Physical Description:ix, 218 pages illustartions 22 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-214) and index
ISBN:9780750652650
0750652659