Book Summary:
This book provides a systematic approach to bioethical decision making that can help clarify issues in situations where "right" and "wrong" may not be clearly defined. New to this edition: an expanded preface and first chapter to accommodate advances in health care; two new chapters on traditional ethical systems and how they pertain to the health care setting; an expanded final chapter on Symphonology (now formally recognized as a nursing theory); end of chapter questions and dilemmas; new, more current case studies; and more... Key Features of this Book: - Gives a step-by-step process that guides the practitioner to justify ethical decisions and how to implement them
- The only nursing book that actually features a comprehensive system of bioethical decision making
- Applicable to practice as well as being useful for at-risk students and general ethics courses
- Presents a practice-based decision making model
- Easy to apply--students and practitioners have reported immediate ability to use what they have learned
- Provides an examination of person, their motivations, and their rights
- Gives a careful and comprehensive discussion of the meaning and definition of terms and how they relate to decision making
- Helps to give the health care professional confidence in his or her ethical decision making
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