Ethical and Professional Issues in Nursing: Perspectives from Europe

ISBN-13: 9780333749937 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 197 str.

W Tadd

Opis

This text focuses on various issues that impact directly on professional nursing practice. Each chapter is written by an acknowledged expert and offers nurses the opportunity to increase their understanding of the similarities and differences in national approaches to a range of issues. Each of the authors has considerable experience of European health care and their contributions offer a multinational view that will stimulate discussion and debate. They explore a range of topics of importance to professional nursing practice with perspectives drawn from the UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, Denmark and Ireland.

Spis treści

Challenges and Issues in Nursing; W.Tadd.- The Nurse's Role, Present and Future; G.Evers.- Evidence-Based Practice The Role of Nursing Research; S.Holm.- Nursing's Role in Shaping European Health Policy; T.Keighley.- Political Activity and the Nurse A Professional Duty; M.Ardnt.- Interprofessional Relationships: Collaboration or Confrontation; M.Gasu.- The Nurse: Autonomous Professional or Subservient Worker?; A.Scott.- Do Nurses Have a Special Claim to be Patient Advocates?; P.Allmark.- How Effective are Codes of Nursing Ethics?; A.Edgar.- Professional Self-Regulation in Nursing; R.Pyne.

O autorze

WIN TADD is Senior Research Fellow in the Academic Department of Geriatric Medicine, University of Wales, College of Medicine, where she is involved in a number of European research projects.