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Case Studies in Nursing Ethics, 2nd Edition.

Case Studies in Nursing Ethics, 2nd Edition

This book is also available as a HOME STUDY course: HM1016A and HM1016B. Visit: www.AAACEUs.com and select Course Listings. Courses are listed in alphabethical order by course ID. These courses are pre-approved for CCM, CRC, Nurses in every state, CMC, CLCP, COHN, CPUR, CPUM and is appropriate for CRRN.

Case Studies in Nursing Ethics presents basic ethical principles and specific guidance for applying these principles in nursing practice, through analysis of over 150 actual ethical case study conflicts that have occurred in the nursing practice. Each case study allows readers to develop their own approaches to the resolution of ethical conflict and to reflect on how the traditions of ethical thought and professional guidelines apply to the situation.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I: Ethics and Values in Nursing

Chapter 1: Values in Health and Illness
A. Identifying Evaluation in Nursing
B. Identifying Ethical Conflicts

Chapter 2: The Nurse and Moral Authority
A. The Authority of the Profession
B. The Authority of the Physician
C. The Authority of the Institution
D. The Authority of the Health Insurer
E. The Authority of Society
F. The Authority of the Patient

Part II: Ethical Issues in Nursing

Chapter 3: Benefiting the Patient and Others: The Duty to Produce Good and Avoid Harm
A. Benefit to the Client
B. Benefit to the Institution
C. Benefit to Society
D. Benefit to the Identified Nonclients
E. Benefit to the Profession
F. Benefit to Oneself and One's Family

Chapter 4: Justice: The Allocation of Health Resources
A. Justice Among the Nurse's Patients
B. Justice Between Patients and Others
C. Justice in Public Policy
D. Justice and Other Ethical Principles

Chapter 5: The Principle of Autonomy
A. Diminished Capacity to Claim Autonomy
B. External Constraints on Autonomy
C. Overriding Autonomy

Chapter 6. Veracity
A. The Condition of Doubt
B. Duties and Consequences in Truth-Telling
C. Complications in Truth-Telling
D. The Right to Health Records

Chapter 7: Fidelity
A. Promise-Keeping
B. Confidentiality

Chapter 8: The Sanctity of Human Life
A. Actions and Omissions
B. Criteria for Justifiable Omission
C. Withholding and Withdrawing
D. Direct and Indirect Killing
E. Voluntary and Involuntary Killing
F. Is Witholding Food and Water Killing?

Part III: Special Problem Areas in Nursing Practice

Chapter 9: Abortion, Sterilization, and Contraception
A. Abortion
B. Contraception
C. Sterilization

Chapter 10: Genetics, Birth, and the Biological Revolution
A. Genetic Counseling
B. Genetic Screening
C. In Vitro Fertilization and Artificial Insemination
D. Genetics Engineering

Chapter 11: Psychiatry and the Control of Human Behavior
A. Psychotherapy
B. The Concept of Mental Health
C. Other Behavior-Controlling Therapies

Chapter 12: HIV/AIDS Care
A. Conflicts Between Rights and Duties
B. Conflicts Involving the Cost of Treatment and Allocations of Resources
C. Research on HIV

Chapter 13: Experimentation on Human Beings
A. Calculating Risk and Benefits
B. Protecting Privacy
C. Equity in Research
D. Informed Consent in Research

Chapter 14: Consent and the Right to Refuse Treatment
A. The Right to Refuse Treatment
B. The Elements and Standards of Consent
C. Comprehension and Voluntariness
D. Consent for Incompetents

Chapter 15: Death and Dying
A. The Definition of Death
B. Competent and Formerly Competent Patients
C. Never-Competent Patients and Those Who Have Never Expressed their Wishes
D. Futile Care
E. Limits Based on the Interests of Other Parties

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