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Author Curtin, Leah.

Title Nursing ethics ; theories and pragmatics / Leah Curtin, M. Josephine Flaherty.

Publication Info. Bowie, Md. : R.J. Brady Co., [1982]
©1982

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  174.2 C978N    Check Shelf
Description xv, 363 pages ; 24 cm
Contents What are human rights? -- Commitment of Rights: Responsibility -- Is health care a right? -- Human problems: human beings -- Conscience: Right and wrong -- No rush to judgment -- Nursing's contract with society -- Nurse-patient relationship: foundations, purposes, responsibilities, and rights -- Commitment of nursing -- Nurse-family relationship -- Nurse-nurse relationship -- Nurse-physician relationship -- Nurse-institution relationship -- Case Studies: -- Conflicting Obligations, Extending the scope of care -- Insubordination -- patient load -- Consent, conflict, and "euthanasia" -- Abortion, privacy, and conscience -- Nurse-patient conflict -- telephone orders -- Refusal of treatment for minors -- Structures, attitudes, regulations, and the rights of the elderly -- Nursing education -- unethical conduct of the role models -- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the nurse -- Hyperalimentation -- the distribution of a scarce resource -- Confidentiality of patients' records -- Patients' right to know -- Nurse's right to tell -- Nurse-patient conflict -- Consent for nursing intervention.
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index.
Subject Nursing ethics.
Ethics, Nursing -- Case Reports.
Added Author Flaherty, M. Josephine.
ISBN 0893030511 case $19.95
0893030538 paperback $11.95
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