Nursing Law and Ethics

Abstract

I. Introduction.- Nursing: State, Status and Statutes.- II. Nursing: Legal Aspects.- Rights and Responsibilities.- Human Rights in the Nurse-Patient Relationship.- Whats Wrong About Rights.- Medical Care: The Problem of Autonomy.- Rights and Responsibilities of Nurses as the Basis for Their Contracts with Society, with Patients, and with Colleagues.- Treatment.- Legal Implications of Standards of Nursing Care.- Practice and Malpractice.- Legal Aspects of Surgery in England.- Legal and Moral Rights for Mentally Ill People: A Critical Argument.- Involuntary Sterilization of the Mentally Retarded: Curtailing Procreation Rights of Persons with Diminished Capability to Claim Rights.- Informed Consent.- Issues of Confidentiality in Health Care.- Father-Daughter Incest: Who Owns the Child?.- Prosecutors or Defenders: With Whom Should Clinicians Align?.- III. Nursing: Ethical Aspects.- Moral Dilemmas.- Moral Dilemmas in Nursing.- Law or Ethics: Which of Them Should Regulate Nursing Practice?.- Education.- Should Nurses Study Ethics?.- The Work Environment as a Factor in Continous Ethical Training.- Research.- Aspects of Ethics in Nursing Research.- The Ethics in Nursing Research.- Implication of Ethics and Nursing Research for Patient Advocacy.- Ethics and Research into Nursing Practice.- Ethical Considerations for the Nurse Ethnographer Doing Field Research in Clinical Settings.- Attitude of Nurses to Euthanasia of Terminally Ill Patients.- Decision Making.- A Framework for Resolving Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing Education.- Social and Role Constraints on Ethical Decision Making by Nurses in Hospital.- A Simulation Game: A Tool for Teaching Ethical Decision Making to Student Nurses in Israel.- Treatment.- A Foundation for Nursing Ethics.- Ethical Imperatives in Nursing.- Ethical Considerations in the Care of Dying Patients.- Ethical Problems in the Assessment of the Quality of Care.- Ethical Issues in the Care of the Elderly Under Socialised Medicine.- Feeding Problems.- IV. Nursing: Cultural and Religious Aspects.- The Economics of Caring.- Culture.- Illness. A Time of Stress Involving the Relationship Between the Individual Personality and Cultural Background.- Religion.- Nursing in Jewish Medical Ethics: Visiting the Sick.- Ministering to the Sick.- The Implication of Radical Christian Philosophy for Nursing Ethics.- V. Epilogue.- The Dependent, Independent and Interdependent Functions of the Nurse Practitioner: A Legal and Ethical Perspective.- The Changing Role of Nurses and Its Implications.