Concepts and Cases in Nursing Ethics - Fourth Edition - Paperback

by Michael Yeo (Author), Anne Moorhouse (Author), Pamela Khan (Author)

The fourth edition of this leading nursing ethics text has been updated to reflect current laws and nursing practices, and it includes an added chapter on end-of-life decision making.

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A portion of the revenue from this book's sales will be donated to Doctors Without Borders to assist the humanitarian work of nurses, doctors, and other health care providers in the fight against COVID-19 and beyond.

Concepts and Cases in Nursing Ethics is an introduction to contemporary ethical issues in health care, designed especially for Canadian audiences. The book is organized around six key concepts: beneficence, autonomy, truth-telling, confidentiality, justice, and integrity. Each of these concepts is explained and discussed with reference to professional and legal norms. The discussion is then supplemented by case studies that exemplify the relevant concepts and show how each applies in health care and nursing practice. This new fourth edition includes an added chapter on end-of-life issues, and it is revised throughout to reflect the latest developments on topics such as global health ethics, cultural competence, social media, and palliative sedation, as well as ethical issues relating to COVID-19.

Author Biography

Michael Yeo is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Laurentian University.

Anne Moorhouse is a Professor at Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology and teaches bioethics at Ryerson University.

Pamela Khan is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto, and a member of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics.

Patricia Rodney is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and a Faculty Associate with the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia.