Ethical decision making in nursing and health care : the symphonological approach

• Main Authors: Husted, James H. (Author), Husted, Gladys L. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Springer, c2008
• Edition: 4th ed.
• Subjects: ošetřovatelská etika; zdravotnická etika; bioetika; rozhodování; nursing ethics; health care ethics; bioethics; decision making; příručky; případové studie; handbooks, manuals, etc; case studies
• ISBN: 9780826115126 0-8261-1512-8
• Physical Description: xix, 331 s. : il. ; 26 cm

Table of Contents:

• The ethical journey
• The nurse-patient agreement
• The bioethical standards and their role as preconditions of the agreement
• The nature of the ethical context
• Practice-based ethics and the bioethical standards as lenses
• The power of analysis through extremes
• Apparent conflicts among the bioethical standards
• Elements of human autonomy
• Giants: the classic tradition
• Contemporary ethical systems
• Virtues as resources
• Advanced concepts in symphonological theory