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Elsevier Australia
08 November 2022
Now in its eighth edition, Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective provides practical guidance on the ethical issues you might come across in nursing practice, with real-world examples that help to bring this important subject to life.

Author Dr Megan-Jane Johnstone AO, Australia's foremost nursing ethics scholar, provides a comprehensive framework for negotiating the ethical challenges, obligations and responsibilities you might face. The text is engaging and easy to follow, and has been fully updated to reflect current issues in health care such as nurse practitioner assisted dying, pandemic ethics, and the moral costs of misinformation and medical conspiracy theories. .

This book is a suitable companion to the law and ethics components of both undergraduate and postgraduate nursing studies, and is relevant for all nurses who encounter ethical problems in their everyday practice.

Written in an engaging style - suitable for undergraduate as well as postgraduate students and researchers

Focuses on prominent and topical ethical issues facing individual nurses as well as the broader profession

Covers a broad range of bioethical issues in health care and how these relate to various fundamental traditions in philosophical ethics

Real-life case studies and hypothetical scenarios to encourage debate

Covers hot topics in modern nursing practice, including:

Professional standards

How to make moral decisions

Cross-cultural ethics, including the problem of racism

Dehumanisation and vulnerable populations

Patient rights

Mental health care ethics

End-of-life care

Moral politics of abortion and euthanasia

Moral lessons of COVID-19

Additional resources on Evolve

eBook on VitalSource

Questions fostering critical reflection to support learning

Key points and new chapter groupings for easy navigation

New chapter on pandemic ethics
By:  
Imprint:   Elsevier Australia
Country of Publication:   Australia
Edition:   8th edition
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 191mm, 
ISBN:   9780729544283
ISBN 10:   0729544281
Pages:   422
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Replaced By:   9780729587662
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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