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Ethical Issues in Advanced Nursing Practice

  • 1 Edición - 2 de agosto de 2001
  • Última edición
  • Editor: Karen Bartter
  • Idioma: Inglés

Nursing staff of many specialities are taking on and developing their roles in new and advanced practice areas. Patients will be offered new services from highly skilled advanced… Leer más

Descripción

Nursing staff of many specialities are taking on and developing their roles in new and advanced practice areas. Patients will be offered new services from highly skilled advanced nurse practitioners. Such nurses need guidance, direction and information to assist them in their new roles. This book will offer insight and guidance on a variety of issues that are likely to be encountered by the Nurse Practitioner in everyday practice.

Puntos claves

* ·First book presenting ethical challenges at Nurse Practitioner level *
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· Aims to guide practice and offer points for discussion and reflective thinking

De interès para

Nurse Practitioners

Índice

List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Ethics and advanced nursing practice; Contraception and the under 16s – legal and ethical implications for the nurse practitioner; The abortion issue and advanced nursing practice; Raising awareness of the ethical issues surrounding termination of pregnancy for fetal abnormalities; Ethical considerations in childhood immunizations for the advanced nurse practitioner; Informed consent and the advanced nurse practitioner; The advanced nurse practitioner: empowerment in witnessed resuscitation; Advance directives – considerations for advanced nurse practitioners; Appendix; Index.

Detalles del producto

  • Edición: 1
  • Última edición
  • Publicado: 2 de agosto de 2001
  • Idioma: Inglés

Sobre el editor

KB

Karen Bartter

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Senior Lecturer, University of Wolverhampton School of Nursing and Midwifery, The Nurse Education Centre, Burton-upon-Trent, UK