Ethical Issues in Home Health Care [electronic resource].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Sheri.

Contributor:

Ladd, Rosalind.

Pasquerella, Lynn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Home care services--Moral and ethical aspects.

Home care services.

Home nursing--Moral and ethical aspects.

Home nursing.

Home Care Services--ethics.

Nurse-Patient Relations--ethics.

Ethics, Nursing.

Medical Subjects:

Home Care Services--ethics.

Nurse-Patient Relations--ethics.

Ethics, Nursing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Springfield : Charles C Thomas, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book will help to answer some of the growing number of ethical questions and more complex issues that home health care nurses face. The cases presented in each chapter of the book are fictionalized situations based on interviews conducted with home health care nurses in both hospital-sponsored and private agencies, in hospices, and in urban and rural settings. Each chapter of the book is devoted to one of the main areas of concern for home health care nurses. Focusing on specific cases, it offers analysis and discussion of the ethical issues, cites legal requirements where relevant, and s

Contents:

ETHICAL ISSUES IN HOME HEALTH CARE; CONTENTS; Chapter 1 ETHICAL DECISION MAKING; Chapter 2 PATIENTS' DECISIONS, NURSES' DILEMMAS; Chapter 3 THE ROLE OF THE FAMILY; Chapter 4 SAFEGUARDING SECRETS,PROTECTING PRIVACY; Chapter 5 PATIENTS WHO DO NOT "FOLLOW ORDERS"; Chapter 6 RESPECTING CULTURAL DIFFERENCES; Chapter 7 FACING THE END OF LIFE; Chapter 8 NURSES' RESPONSIBILITIES, NURSES' RIGHTS; Chapter 9 CARING FOR THE MENTALLY ILL; Chapter 10 CARING FOR CHILDREN; Appendix A LEGAL RULINGS; Appendix B ADDITIONAL CASES; Appendix C ETHICS COMMITTEES IN HOME HEALTH CARE AGENCIES; GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-398-08597-8

OCLC:

689995686