Ethics for Nursing and Healthcare Practice - Kath Melia

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Ethics for Nursing and Healthcare Practice

Name: Ethics for Nursing and Healthcare Practice
Brand: SAGE PUBLICATIONS
Price: 305.75 AUD
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By: Kath Melia

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Hardcover | 16 March 2014

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Hardcover
168 Pages

Dimensions(cm)
25.0 x 16.9 x 1.5

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Everyday clinical practice is steeped in ethical considerations, but discussion of ethics is often removed from these real-life situations. Kath M Melia's new book works in the gap between theory and practice. The chapters tackle the main theories which form the discussion on ethics, and include practical case examples, which bring these theories into the clinical context. These classic and everyday cases challenge the reader to critically reflect on his/her own experiences and outlook.

The social, legal and professional regulation context is brought into the discussion throughout, to equip students with the knowledge that they need to make clinical decisions.

Topics covered include:

- Beauchamp and Childress' four principles of bioethics

- Rights

- Personal and individual conscience

- Moral philosophy

- The virtues/virtue ethics of the practitioner.

This book will be essential reading for pre-registration nursing students taking modules in ethics and law. It will also be a valuable text for postgraduates and qualified nurses, and students of health who need to gain an appreciation of ethics.

Industry Reviews

If you don't know why nurses need to understand ethics - read the newspapers; if you want nurses to understand ethics - give them this book. This is well written with very practical examples with which nurses and nursing students can identify. -- Roger Watson Kath Melia has captured the complex relationship between ethics, sociology and law in this book. She does not simplify the issues, yet this text, with its lively case illustrations, is totally relevant to everyday clinical practice. -- Alastair Campbell 'Melia tackles this most important topic in a fluent and immensely readable way. This book should be essential reading for any nursing professional facing the complexities of contemporary practice.' -- Sheila McLean, Emeritus Professor of Law and Ethics in Medicine, University of Glasgow Kath Melia, an experienced and knowledgeable writer on health care ethics, has once again produced a very useful text for both students and registered nurses and health care practitioners in all disciplines. The emphasis on a case based, "reality" -- Gilly Hewetson, Lecturer in Health Care Ethics and Law, University of East Anglia

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