Nursing Law and Ethics

Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Nursing: State, Status and Statutes....Pages 3-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-13
Human Rights in the Nurse-Patient Relationship....Pages 14-21
Whats Wrong About Rights....Pages 22-27
Medical Care: The Problem of Autonomy....Pages 28-29
Rights and Responsibilities of Nurses as the Basis for Their Contracts with Society, with Patients, and with Colleagues....Pages 30-38
Legal Implications of Standards of Nursing Care....Pages 39-44
Practice and Malpractice....Pages 45-53
Legal Aspects of Surgery in England....Pages 54-55
Legal and Moral Rights of Mentally Ill People: A Critical Argument....Pages 56-60
Involuntary Sterilization of the Mentally Retarded: Curtailing Procreation Rights of Persons with Diminished Capability to Claim Rights....Pages 61-66
Informed Consent....Pages 67-69
Issues of Confidentiality in Health Care....Pages 70-74
Father-Daughter Incest: Who Owns the Child?....Pages 75-81
Prosecutors or Defenders: With Whom Should Clinicians Align?....Pages 82-88
Front Matter....Pages 89-91
Moral Dilemmas in Nursing....Pages 93-97
Law or Ethics: Which of Them Should Regulate Nursing Practice?....Pages 98-101
Should Nurses Study Ethics?....Pages 103-108
The Work Environment as a Factor in Continous Ethical Training....Pages 109-114
Aspects of Ethics in Nursing Research....Pages 115-121
The Ethics in Nursing Research....Pages 122-125
Front Matter....Pages 89-91
Implication of Ethics and Nursing Research for Patient Advocacy....Pages 126-131
Ethics and Research into Nursing Practice....Pages 132-135
Ethical Considerations for the Nurse Ethnographer Doing Field Research in Clinical Settings....Pages 136-143
Attitude of Nurses to Euthanasia of Terminally Ill Patients....Pages 144-150
A Framework for Resolving Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing Education....Pages 151-159
Social and Role Constraints on Ethical Decision Making by Nurses in Hospital....Pages 160-164
A Simulation Game: A Tool for Teaching Ethical Decision Making to Student Nurses in Israel....Pages 165-169
A Foundation for Nursing Ethics....Pages 170-177
Ethical Imperatives in Nursing....Pages 178-183
Ethical Considerations in the Care of Dying Patients....Pages 184-187
Ethical Problems in the Assessment of the Quality of Care....Pages 188-190
Ethical Issues in the Care of the Elderly Under Socialised Medicine....Pages 191-196
Feeding Problems....Pages 197-199
Front Matter....Pages 201-203
The Economics of Caring....Pages 205-209
Illness: A Time of Stress Involving the Relationship Between the Individual Personality and Cultural Backround....Pages 210-215
Nursing in Jewish Medical Ethics: Visiting the Sick....Pages 216-219
Ministering to the Sick....Pages 220-224
The Implication of Radical Christian Philosophy for Nursing Ethics....Pages 225-229
Front Matter....Pages 231-233
The Dependent, Independent and Interdependent Functions of the Nurse Practitioner: A Legal and Ethical Perspective....Pages 235-242
The Changing Role of Nurses and Its Implications....Pages 243-245
Back Matter....Pages 246-248