Ethics in Nursing Practice: A Guide to Ethical Decision Making

Every day nurses are required to make ethical decisions in thecourse of caring for their patients. Ethics in NursingPractice provides the background necessary to understandethical decision making and its implications for patient care. Theauthors focus on the individual nurse's responsibilities, as wellas considering the wider issues affecting patients, colleagues andsociety as a whole.

This third edition is fully updated, and takes into account recentchanges in ICN position statements, WHO documents, as well asaddressing current issues in healthcare, such as providing for thehealth and care needs of refugees and asylum seekers, bioethics andthe enforcement of nursing codes. This publication from theInternational Council of Nurses is the essential resource fornurses seeking to understand ethical decision making, written byworld experts in nursing ethics.