Nursing Ethics: Across the Curriculum and Into Practice

Book Synopsis: Nursing Ethics: Across the Curriculum and Into Practice continues to provide a solid ethical foundation for nursing students in an updated sixth edition. This comprehensive, easy-to-read text covers ethics across the nursing curriculum, making it a perfect fit for any undergraduate course. Logically divided into three parts, Nursing Ethics, Sixth Edition underscores how ethics is interwoven with nearly every aspect of professional nursing practice. It guides students through the foundations of ethics in nursing, ethical considerations across the lifespan, and ethical considerations for areas such as leadership and public health. Engaging learning features, including case studies, legal perspectives, and research notes bring concepts to life and serve to remind students that ethics really does sit at the heart of professional nursing practice and quality patient care.

The Sixth Edition features information on current mainstream topics as related to nursing ethics, including:

• Updated content on the status of abortion;
• Updated content reflecting and referencing the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court;
• Updated content related to women’s rights/pro-life arguments;
• Contains new information and a case study surrounding the RaDonda Vaught case;
• Updated content related to HPV and the.