Ethical Competency in Nursing AND Allied Health

Ethical Competency in Nursing and Allied Health presents ethics as a necessary skill in healthcare. Ethical assessment is a skill that has clinical applications. This book will introduce terms needed to pass licensure exams while exploring ethical concepts in depth so that they have practical significance for your professional and personal life. This book features an innovative model for doing an ethical assessment. Readers will find applications across the continuum of care. Topics of special concern include professional integrity, advocacy, the culture of safety, moral dejection, collaboration, disaster ethics, social justice, and bioethics. Ethical Competency in Nursing & Allied Health represents the combined perspective and research of two authors who observed the profound importance of a nuanced ethical approach in attending to patients in their vulnerability. Illness can be a profoundly philosophical experience. The authors work to combine philosophical insight with clinical practicality that recognizes the importance of melding compassion with attention to principles, procedures, and outcome analysis.