Author: Pamela Grace

Nursing Ethics and Professional Responsibility in Advanced Practice equips healthcare professionals with the tools they need to address the ethically complex issues they face in daily practice - both across specialty areas as well as within an area of specialty practice. This unique and comprehensive resource provides a philosophical base for professional responsibility, it explains complex ethical ideas in accessible terms, and presents contemporary examples from actual practice. The book presents ethical issues across a variety of interests with topics ranging from the nature and source of human rights, social justice, human subjects research, acute care practice, and primary care to contemporary content in gerontology and end-of-life care.

Table of Contents

Chapter I  Philosophical Foundations of applied and professional ethics

Chapter 2  Nursing Ethics

Chapter 3  Advanced Practice Nursing: General Ethical Concerns

Chapter 4 Professional Responsibility, Human Rights, and Injustice

Chapter 5 Collaborative Relationships- Promoting Patient Good

Chapter 6  Research Ethics: Advanced Pracice Roles and Responsibilities

Chapter 7  Nursing Ethics and Advanced Practice: Neonatal Issues

Chapter 8  Nursing Ethics and Advanced Practice: Children and Adolescents

Chpater 9  Nursing Ethics and Advanced Practice: Women's Health Issues

Chapter 10 Nursing Ethics and Advanced Practice: Adult Health

Chapter 11 Nursing Ethics and Advanced Practice: Psychiatry and Mental Health Issues

Chapter 12 Nursing Ethics and Nurse Anesthesia Practice

Chapter 13 Nursing Ethics and Advanced Practice: Gerontology and End of Life Issues

©2009, 428 pages.