Essentials of Teaching and Learning in Nursing Ethics
Perspectives and Methods

Anne Davis (Edited by), Verena Tschudin (Edited by), Louise Tew (Edited by)

9780443074806, Elsevier Health Sciences

Paperback / softback, published 22 February 2006

384 pages
24.6 x 18.9 x 2.4 cm, 0.98 kg

"The book is separated into four distinct parts. The second section on Virtue, Caring and Feminist ethics is thorough, well written and orientated towards a nursing interpretation. Each of the chapters in this section remains pragmatic in application to clinical practice.

Although primarily written for teachers and students of healthcare ethics, this book deserves a wider readership because it helps develop the agendas in nursing ethics."

Lecturer, University of Leeds
Journal of Community Nursing. May 2007. Vol 21 issue 5

This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. This book aims to fill a gap with an in-depth exploration of nursing ethics content from the western philosophical tradition and some of the methods used in teaching this content. It addresses cross-cultural issues in using specific ethics content. It also reveals the poverty of the present dualism model in nursing ethics and replace this with a more complex and more useful model that invites debate. Its scope is both wide and deep but that is needed to enrich the basis for teaching nursing ethics.

• Outlines and critiques all current ethical theories and considers their application to nursing practice
• Explores ethical issues in numerous cultures
• Includes case studies drawn from a range of countries
• Written by leading nurse educators and philosophers in the field

Introduction. Section 1: Brief history of nursing ethics; Social ethics; Religious ethics and secular ethics. Section 2: Theoretical content of nursing ethics for education and practice virtue ethics content; Virtue ethics critique; Virtue ethics and nursing. Section 3: Principle-based ethics content; principle-based ethics critique; principle-based ethics and nursing. Section 4: Caring ethics content; Caring ethics critique; Caring ethics and nursing. Section 5: Feminist ethics content; Feminist ethics critique; Feminist ethics and nursing. Section 6: Teaching nursing ethics; Aims and purposes of teaching nursing ethics; Case studies. International perspective on ethical issues. The future of nursing ethics.
(See separate file for detailed contents list)

Subject Areas: Nursing [MQC]