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Practical Ethics for Nurses and Nursing Students: A Short Reference Manual - Book Review
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This short reference manual contains a brief overview of
the most common ethical issues that nurses and nursing students
might experience. The authors are well-qualified to present
this information, as they are all involved in the Bioethics
Department at the Medical College of Wisconsin. The lead
author is a registered nurse on the Bioethics Department
clinical faculty and also serves as Surgical Services Education
Coordinator at Froedtert Hospital. The other three authors
are physicians who are also on the Bioethics Department
faculty (one is a Professor Emeritus and one is also a lawyer).
The format is that of a compact, portable, paperback reference
book, measuring 5 by 7 inches and containing 112 pages.
The contents are divided into XXVII topics (yes, they are
listed using Roman numerals), and each topic is covered
in 2 to 5 pages, including the references. The topics tend
to fall into three broad categories. First are those topics
that encompass general or background subjects such as Professional
Responsibilities (of nurses), Legal Issues, Ethics and Managed
Care, Ethics Consultation, and Bioethics: Theories and Principles.
The second and largest category includes about 14 fairly
specific topics involving straightforward legal restrictions
and definitions. These include such subjects as Informed
Consent, Organ Donation, Advance Directives, and Research,
among others. The last category contains seven areas that
are somewhat less well-defined legally and that pertain
more specifically to nurses, such as Patient Advocacy, The
Difficult Patient, and specific areas of practice such as
pediatric, obstetric, and psychiatric nursing.
The main strength of this manual lies in the ability of
the authors to take exquisitely complex (and, I might add,
at times controversial) subject matter and, for the most
part, condense the information into manageable and comprehensible
reference points. The concept of this book is useful, and
the first author was able to maintain the necessary brevity.
I particularly liked the underlying concept of "looking
up" an ethics topic and being able to read about the
aspects that were most pertinent to the matter.
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