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.
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Ethics, Nursing -- Case Reports.
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Added Author |
Flaherty, M. Josephine.
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ISBN |
0893030511 case $19.95 |
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0893030538 paperback $11.95 |
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