Ethical Issues in Advanced Nursing Practice

Karen Bartter (Edited by)

9780750649551, Elsevier Health Sciences

Paperback, published 2 August 2001

160 pages
27 x 18 x 1.2 cm, 0.21 kg

Nursing staff of many specialities are taking on and developing their roles in new and advanced practice areas. Patients will be offered new services from highly skilled advanced nurse practitioners. Such nurses need guidance, direction and information to assist them in their new roles. This book will offer insight and guidance on a variety of issues that are likely to be encountered by the Nurse Practitioner in everyday practice.

* ·First book presenting ethical challenges at Nurse Practitioner level *
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· Aims to guide practice and offer points for discussion and reflective thinking

List of contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Ethics and advanced nursing practice
Contraception and the under 16s – legal and ethical implications for the nurse practitioner
The abortion issue and advanced nursing practice
Raising awareness of the ethical issues surrounding termination of pregnancy for fetal abnormalities
Ethical considerations in childhood immunizations for the advanced nurse practitioner
Informed consent and the advanced nurse practitioner
The advanced nurse practitioner: empowerment in witnessed resuscitation
Advance directives – considerations for advanced nurse practitioners
Appendix
Index.

Subject Areas: Nursing [MQC]