Book
Ethics in Canadian nursing practice : navigating the journey
Record details
- ISBN: 9780131248892
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Physical Description:
viii, 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
print - Publisher: Toronto, ON : Pearson Prentice Hall, [2009]
- Copyright: ©2009
Content descriptions
| General Note: | New September 2010. Supporting nursing program. "Chapters are linked to the seven primary values in the 2008 centennial edition of the Canadian code of ethics for registered nurses". Includes the 2008 centennial ed. of the Code of ethics for registered nurses (Ottawa : Canadian Nurses Association, 2008): p. [309]-369 (Appendix A) as well as The ICN code of ethics for nurses (Geneva : International Council of Nurses, c2006): p. [370]-380 (Appendix B). |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | What is ethics? -- Ethics theory described -- The evolution of nursing ethics -- Developing nursing ethics --Professional codes of ethics -- Values and ethics in nursing -- Ethics theory and nursing -- Practice as the moral foundation for nursing ethics -- A model for ethics in nursing -- Decision making in clinical practice -- A framework for ethical decision making in nursing -- A framework for ethical decision making -- Questions for ethical reflection: using the framework in nursing practice -- The first primary value: providing safe, compassionate, competent, and ethical care -- Nursing competence -- Compassion -- Safety as a moral obligation -- Attending to nurses' ethical fitness -- Safe, compassionate, competent, and ethical care as a lived value -- The secondary primary value: promoting health and well-being -- Health and health behaviours -- Cultural and family influences on health -- Evolving perspectives on health -- Health promotion -- Morality and health promotion -- Health promotion as a lived value -- The third primary value: promoting and respecting informed decision making -- Understanding choice -- Autonomy and informed consent -- Relational autonomy -- Beliefs, preferences, and choice -- Linking concepts of autonomy and choice -- Choice as a lived value -- The fourth primary value: Preserving dignity -- Developing ideas of dignity -- Dignity and nursing practice -- Dignity as a lived value -- The fifth primary value: Maintaining privacy and confidentiality -- Confidentiality and ethics -- Confidentiality and the law -- Relational ethics and confidentiality -- Safeguarding confidentiality in the health care team -- Advanced technology and privacy concerns -- Appropriate disclosure of information -- Confidentiality as a lived value -- The sixth primary value: Promoting justice -- Legal interpretations of justice -- Justice as a philosophical idea -- Justice as a bioethical principle -- Social justice -- Research and justice -- Justice as a lived value -- The seventh primary value: Being accountable -- Individual accountability -- Accountability in practice -- Maintaining fitness to practise -- Nurses' moral integrity -- Being accountable as a lived value -- Ethical endeavours and leadership -- Ethical endeavours -- The nature of leadership in ethics -- Resources for developing moral agency -- Glossary -- Appendix A: 2008 CNA Code of Ethics for Registered Nurses -- Appendix B: ICN Code of Ethics for Nurses. |
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| Subject: | Nursing ethics -- Canada Nursing -- Standards -- Canada |
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| Castlegar Campus Library | WY 85 O12E 2009 (Text)
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| Dawson Creek Campus | RT 85 O24 2009 (Text) | 31512000878014 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Interurban Library | RT 85 O24 2009 (Text) | 26040003009426 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-10-01 |
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