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The passage of the "Human Rights Act" of 1998 has led to much public debate regarding the scope of citizens' rights and obligations in a new "rights culture." This book focuses on the relationship between human rights and nursing in these changing times.
| Setting the Scene | |
| What are human rights? | |
| Positive negative; civil and political economic Social and cultural | |
| What does human rights mean in the area of health care practice in general and nursing practice in particular? | |
| What is the scope of the Human Rights Act 1998? | |
| What will be the impact of developments such as the EU Social Charter and the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine? | |
| How are rights ranked and what happens if conflicts arise between different rights? | |
| Nurse as participant in treatment acting under the directions of a Doctor- the nature of her responsibilities | |
| Implications for the nurse as patient advocate | |
| Role expansion- what is the effect upon nurses rights? | |
| Rights and health care resource allocation | |
| The right to life and questions of resources | |
| Discrimination and resource allocation | |
| Access to infertility treatment and the role of the right to reproduce | |
| The right to life and the management of pregnancy and childbirth Emergency contraception- role of the nurse prescriber | |
| Abortion | |
| Conscientious objection | |
| Enforced care during pregnancy | |
| Enforced caesarean sections | |
| The right to life and the withdrawal of treatment | |
| The background: from Tony Bland onwards | |
| Child and adult patients | |
| Do Not Resuscitate Orders | |
| Age/disability discrimination | |
| Consent to treatment and human rights Incapable adults | |
| Children | |
| Constraint, restraint and competence | |
| The right to privacy and health information Article 8 Confidentiality and electronic patient information | |
| Confidentiality and clinical research | |
| Genetic information and the nurse as genetic counsellor | |
| Confidentiality and the nurse as researcher | |
| Confidentiality and the nurse as whistleblower- where rights conflict? | |
| Article 10 v Article 8 - Pink case revisited and clinical governance | |
| Mental Health Nursing Article 3 prohibition on torture- concepts of dignity | |
| Article 5- rights to liberty and security- Bournewood and informal patients revisited | |
| Article 6 right to a fair trial- discharge by mental health tribunals | |
| Article 10 whistleblowing- an d the Ashworth inquiry | |
| Clinical research | |
| The role of human rights regulation in clinical research post Nuremberg | |
| Comparative international analysis of regulation of research | |
| Consent to participation, the role of the vulnerable adult | |
| Article 3 prohibition on torture | |
| Conscience, Belief and Treatment Decisions | |
| Article 9 Freedom of Religion | |
| Religious beliefs and treatment decisions | |
| (a)At the start of life- Siamese twins etc | |
| (b)At the end of life- Bland | |
| Conscientious objection | |
| Discrimination | |
| Nursing in a multi-cultural society | |
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ISBN: 9780750652926
ISBN-10: 0750652926
Audience:
Tertiary; University or College
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 220
Published: 30th January 2004
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6
x 1.1
Weight (kg): 0.316
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