Nursing Diagnosis: What It Is, What It Is Not
Nursing Diagnosis: What It Is, What It Is Not Learning Objectives After reading the chapter, the following questions should be answered: What is the bifocal clinical practice model? How do…
Nursing Diagnoses: Issues and Controversies
Nursing Diagnoses: Issues and Controversies Learning Objectives After reading the chapter, the following questions should be answered: Why can’t we use words that we are familiar with? Why are student…
Types and Components of Nursing Diagnoses
Types and Components of Nursing Diagnoses Learning Objectives After reading the chapter, the following questions should be answered: What are the differences between problem-focused risk and possible nursing diagnoses? What…
Development of Nursing Diagnosis
Development of Nursing Diagnosis Learning Objectives After reading the chapter, the following questions should be answered: What are the benefits of a uniform language in nursing? What is nursing diagnosis?…
Patients’ rights to and in health care
Learning Objectives Upon the completion of this chapter and with further self-directed learning you are expected to be able to: • Discuss the relationship between patients’ / clients’ rights and human rights….
Ethical issues in mental health care
Learning Objectives Upon the completion of this chapter and with further self-directed learning you are expected to be able to: • Discuss critically why a charter of rights and responsibilities…
Professional judgment, moral quandaries and taking ‘appropriate action’
Learning Objectives Upon the completion of this chapter and with further self-directed learning you are expected to be able to: • Identify at least four key areas in which nurses…
Ethical issues in end-of-life care
Learning Objectives Upon the completion of this chapter and with further self-directed learning you are expected to be able to: • Discuss critically ‘Not For Treatment (NFT)’ directives and ‘Not…
Ethics, dehumanisation and vulnerable populations
Learning Objectives Upon the completion of this chapter and with further self-directed learning you are expected to be able to: • Discuss critically the notion of vulnerability. • Define dehumanisation…
Moral theory and the ethical practice of nursing
Learning Objectives Upon the completion of this chapter and with further self-directed learning you are expected to be able to: • Explain moral justification. • Discuss critically the importance of…
