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This edited volume brings together a wide-ranging set of original, interdisciplinary essays on nursing ethics, filling a significant gap in the literature. The volume provides focused, in-depth treatments of the foundations of nursing ethics, the identities and roles of nurses in clinical care and research, and challenging ethical and practical questions arising in nursing practice. The volume pushes these topics and boundaries beyond what is typically found in broad, comprehensive introductory texts, providing an essential resources to academics, clinicians, and nursing researchers.
List of contents
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I: Concepts, Knowledge, and Practical Identity
- 1. An Argument for the Distinct Nature of Nursing Ethics
- Pamela J. Grace
- 2. Nursing Ethics as an Independent Subfield of Healthcare Ethics
- Eric Vogelstein
- 3. The Relevance of Feminist Ethics for Moral Communities in Healthcare Work
- Joan Liaschenko and Elizabeth Peter
- 4. Moral Expertise and Epistemic Peerhood: Implications for Nursing Practice
- Jamie Carlin Watson
- 5. Patient Best Interest: Why Nurses Cannot Be Expected to Know What Is Best for Their Patients
- Robert M. Veatch
- 6. Revisiting Moral Agency
- Jennifer L. Bartlett and Carol Taylor
- 7. A Critical Analysis of Professional Moral Competencies of Nurse Practitioners
- Elizabeth Peter and Anne Simmonds
- 8. Designing a Culture of Ethical Practice in Health Care: A New Paradigm
- Heather Fitzgerald and Cynda Hylton Rushton
- 9. An Ethics Lens for Nursing Leadership
- Katherine Brown-Saltzman
- 10. Conceptions of Vulnerability within the Context of Clinical Reseach
- Michael J. Deem and Judith A. Erlen
- Part II: Emerging Ethical Issues in Clinical Practice
- 11. A Matter of Trust: Balancing Ethical Duties and Legal Obligations in the Nursing Care of Pregnant Women with Substance Use Disorder
- Liz Stokes
- 12. The Ethical Rationale for Comprehensive Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Follow-up
- Angel C. Carter and Brian S. Carter
- 13. Empowering Parents for Better Decision-Making: A Distinct Role for Nursing Staff in Pediatric Clinical Care
- Erica K. Salter
- 14. Consent and My Chronically-ill Child
- Emily A. Largent
- 15. How Confucian Values Shape the Moral Boundaries of Family Caregiving
- Helen Y.L. Chan, Richard Kim, Doris Yin-ping Leung, Ho-yu Cheng, Connie Yuen-yu Chong, and Wai-tong Chien
- 16. Constructing Avenues for Meaningful Agency: A Role for Nurses in Caring forPersons with Disabilities
- Laura Guidry-Grimes
- 17. Emerging Ethical Issues in Dementia Care
- Jennifer H. Lingler and Jalayne J. Arias
- 18. Relational Autonomy: A Critical Reading for Palliative and End-of-Life Care
- Philip J. Larkin
- 19. Help Wanted: Technology, ICU Nurses, and Death
- Helen Stanton Chapple and Megan Gillen
- 20. Teaching with Pictures: Respect for the Vulnerable
- Daniel A. Wilkenfeld and Christa Johnson
About the author
Michael J. Deem is Associate Professor in the Department of Human Genetics and Core Faculty in the Center for Bioethics & Health Law at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also Director of the University of Pittsburgh's Consortium Ethics Program, which provides continuing ethics education to healthcare professionals. He has published widely in philosophy and bioethics, and has taught ethics courses in genetic counselling, medicine, nursing, philosophy, and rehabilitation science programs for over a decade.
Jennifer H. Lingler is Professor of Nursing and Psychiatry, and faculty at the Center for Bioethics & Health Law, at the University of Pittsburgh. Her federally and foundation funded research focuses on psychosocial and ethical issues in dementia care and research, with an emphasis on provider-patient communication.
Summary
This edited volume comprises twenty original essays in nursing ethics by an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars, researchers, and clinicians. The volume is the first wide-ranging, advanced edited volume in nursing ethics that explores the normative foundations and frameworks of nursing ethics, philosophical views of ethical knowledge, practical identity, moral agency in nursing, and emerging ethical issues in nursing practice and health policy. Part I focuses on foundational normative issues in nursing ethics, including questions about its independence as a field of inquiry among other subfields in bioethics, its methods, and its potential contribution to forming ethical environments for healthcare professionals. Several chapters address questions surrounding the scope, reliability, and limit of nurses' ethical knowledge and expertise, and the moral and practical identities that nurses take on qua nurses. Part II focuses on emerging issues in clinical practice and nursing education, including current and anticipated ethical challenges in the care of persons, families, and communities impacted by both physical and mental health conditions are addressed. Several chapters aim to proactively identify ethical concerns posed by new developments in areas such as biotechnology, health policy, and cultural shifts.
Together, the essays in this volume provide focused, in-depth normative inquiry and analysis on central and new topics in nursing ethics, moving beyond what is typically found in a broad, comprehensive introductory text, filling a significant gap in the nursing ethics literature. These essays reinforce the field as a distinct and important subfield of both academic bioethics and clinical ethics.
