This book invites health and social care students to explore the ethical issues of clinical practice. The writings reflect that it is a professional responsibility for health and social care practitioners to care for each person, whom they might call clients, in an ethical manner. For a health and social care professional to ethically care for someone they must provide quality care. This should reflect evidence-based practice, be culturally competent and be performed in collaboration with an interprofessional team.
Learning to care ethically is evident throughout this book in several ways, from the student or reader recognising their own uniqueness through to understanding the need for allocation of resources. The reader is guided through an engaging journey of professional development. The reader starts by identifying their own uniqueness with individual values and beliefs, before exploring the different uniqueness of clients or patients who also have different values and beliefs. It moves the reader onto an understanding that the health and social care professional can themselves cause moral problems or dilemmas. These reflect the student’s professional moral development and personal values and beliefs.
Ethical rights are emphasised and the student is able to embrace and enact the values and beliefs of their professional body. Finally the components are combined together with critical reflection to enable the students to develop sound ethical standards that meet those of their professions’ Code of Ethics or Standard of Practice Conduct.
The interactive layout of the book takes the reader on a stimulating and enjoyable journey to challenge their own thinking and to develop their practice in a more informed and critical manner.
Brief contents
- Full contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- About the authors
- Guided tour
- Author acknowledgements
- Publisher acknowledgements
Part 1 The basic building blocks to understanding ethics in clinical practice
- 1 Start at ‘Go’
- 2 Where did you get your values and beliefs?
- 3 Ethical issues and problems in health care
- 4 Clients’ and patients’ rights and protecting the vulnerable
- 5 The relationship of ethics to philosophy
- 6 Eastern philosophical traditions
- 7 Being part of a team: interprofessional care
- 8 ‘Why do they make me suffer?’ Pain and resuscitation
- 9 The experiences of illness and loss
- 10 Making decisions that are ethical
Part 2 Different types of clinical practice or situations
- 11 Ethical issues in primary health care
- 12 Ethical problems occurring in mental health and psychiatric care
- 13 Complex care: ethical problems in the emergency department, perioperative, intensive and coronary care units
- 14 Who gets what? In other words, the allocation of resources
- 15 Sexuality: masculine and feminine ethical issues
- 16 How to do ethical health care research
- 17 It isn’t easy, but it is essential!
Further professional development
References
Complementary reading
Index
About the author
- Dr Georgina Hawley, Principal Lecturer and Programme Lead, Adult nursing, School of Health and Social Care, Oxford Brookes University. Georgina has been designing ethics syllabus for health care curriculum since 1988. She has taught extensively in ethics in Australia, the UK and Hong Kong. Her ethics research has included where nurses and other health care professionals experience ethical problems in clinical practice. Consequently, these trouble spots or areas of difficulty are covered in this book. Georgina strongly believes in client and patients rights, and has gained insight into their problems through researching the patients experience of being ill. She is also an Ordained Priest and has worked as a hospital chaplain in a large tertiary institution, where she had the honour of sitting and walking beside many ill people and their loved ones.
Product Details
- Paperback: 410 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall (UK) (September 30, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0132018276
- ISBN-13: 978-0132018272
- Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.6 x 0.9 inches
List Price: $55.00