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ISBN 10: 0230506887 

ISBN 13: 9780230506886

Author: Alan E. Armstrong

This book examines the division of labour between nurses and other health professions and occupations. It connects classic sociological concerns with practical problems affecting the contemporary NHS, such as: skill-mix in hospitals; the emergence of new roles; the shifting boundaries between medicine and nursing; and the barriers to change that exist. The book contains a series of case studies illustrating tensions, conflict and accommodation observable when occupations, or sub-groups within occupations, negotiate new working relationships.

Nursing Ethics A Virtue Based Approach 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction

Broad aim of the book

Plan of the book

Chapter 2: Illness, Narratives, and the Value of the Nurse–Patient Relationship

Introduction

Illness and narratives

Hospitalization and patients’ emotions

A brief history of the nurse–patient relationship

The nurse–patient relationship in contemporary nursing and the notion of empowerment

Therapeutic nurse–patient relationships

The role of the nurse

Barker, Jackson, and Stevenson on the essential feature of mental health nursing

Defining a ‘good’ nurse

Conclusions

Chapter 3: The Virtues in General Ethics

Introduction

On ‘faring well’

The virtues in the history of philosophy

What is a virtue?

Assumptions about virtues and goodness

Virtues or vices?

Is it possible to provide a complete list of virtues?

What might determine important virtues?

What is a virtue? Revisited

Why should the virtues be valued?

Advantages of the virtue-based approach to morality

Problems with the virtues

Conclusions

Chapter 4: A Critique of Obligation-Based Moral Theories in General Ethics

Introduction

Characterizing obligation-based moral theories

Consequentialism

Objections to act-consequentialism

Problems with utilitarianism

Merits of consequentialism

Rule-consequentialism

Consequentialism – conclusions

Deontology

Contemporary deontology

Deontological constraints

Intention and foresight in deontology

Problems with deontology

Deontology and intuitions: A response

Deontology: Conclusions

Conclusions

Chapter 5: The Origins, Development, and Tenets of Virtue Ethics

Introduction

The origins and development of virtue ethics

The central tenets of virtue ethics

Virtue ethics: Nomenclature

Supplementary virtue ethics

Strong virtue ethics

Aristotle’s virtue ethics

Objections to Aristotle’s ethics

Virtue ethics and moral character

Conclusions

Chapter 6: Common Objections to Virtue Ethics

Introduction

Conclusions

Chapter 7: A Critical Account of Obligation-Based Moral Theories in Nursing Practice

Introduction

Why are obligation-based moral theories popular in nursing?

Examples of the deontic approach to moral decision-making in the nursing literature

Moral decision-making tools

The four principles approach to biomedical ethics

Criticisms of obligation-based moral theories in nursing

Conclusions

Chapter 8: Virtue-Based Moral Decision-Making in Nursing Practice

Introduction

Judgement and moral wisdom

The virtue-based helping relationship

The virtue-based approach to moral decision-making in nursing practice

Merits of the virtue-based approach to moral decision-making in nursing practice

Criticisms of the virtue-based approach to moral decision-making in nursing practice

Conclusions

Chapter 9: MacIntyre’s Account of the Virtues

Introduction

Criticisms of MacIntyre’s thesis

Conclusions

Chapter 10: MacIntyre’s Account of the Virtues and the Virtue-Based Approach to Moral Decision-Making in Nursing Practice

Introduction

Nursing practice, narratives, and morality

Nursing as a practice: Its internal goods and the virtues

The virtue-based approach as a tradition of enquiry

Conclusions

Chapter 11: Conclusions

Introduction

Criticisms of the virtue-based approach to moral decision-making in nursing practice

Areas for further research and enquiry

Merits of the virtue-based approach to moral decision-making in nursing practice

Teaching the virtues

Conclusions

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