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...

Fully examines the practical nature of counseling, concentrating in particular on the sensitive nature of caring. Topics covered include support systems, the bearing of ethical issues on nursing practice, and the special skills required to give appropriate advice in the case of bereavement. The book's theoretical underpinning is the author's "Four Question Model": What is happening? What is the meaning of it? What is your goal? and How are you going to do it?

Globalisation affects health, health care and nursing and has the potential to change the very nature of what we now take for granted in health care and how we obtain it. Nursing as a profession faces multiple challenges, many of them because of globalization. Nurses have always seen their profession as a passport to the world. In the past, the move was from west to east and north to south. That trend is now reversed due to globalisation. Nursing education needs to reflect these challenges, particularly how to cope with practitioners from culturally different areas, with educationally...