Law, Ethics and Professional Issues for Nursing：A Reflective and Portfolio-Building Approach

This comprehensive new textbook covers core ethical and legal content for pre-registration nursing students. It provides readers with a sound understanding of the interrelationships between the NMC's code of conduct, standards and competencies, ethics and relevant sections of the English legal system.
The only truly integrated text in the field, it opens with overviews of law and nursing, and ethical theories and nursing. It goes on to explore key areas of contention – such as negligence, confidentiality and consent – from legal and ethical perspectives, mapping the discussion onto the NMC code of conduct. The chapters include objectives, patient-focused case scenarios, key points, activities, questions, areas for reflection, further reading and a summary. Case law and statutes and ethical theories are presented where appropriate.
Written by an experienced nurse-lecturer with a law and ethics teaching background, Law, Ethics and Professional Issues for Nursing is essential reading for all pre-registration nursing students, as well as students of other healthcare professions.

Herman Wheeler is a Lecturer in Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Birmingham. UK. A trained mental health and adult nurse, he also holds a postgraduate diploma and MA in law and is a Chartered Psychologist. He currently teaches law and ethics to nursing and health students.

Chapter 1. Introduction to and case for this book: value to nursing students Chapter 2. Applying professional code of conduct, law and moral principles to caring Chapter 3. Nurses breaking the law; importance of not doing so Chapter 4. Introduction to, and overview of, English Legal System Chapter 5. Consent: legal, ethical and professional issues Chapter 6. Confidentiality: legal, ethical and professional dimensions Chapter 7. Negligence in Healthcare Chapter 8. Ethics in Nursing: the case for ethics Chapter 9. Consequences of nurses possessing misguided, cruel moral values Chapter 10. Ethical theory of Principlism and brief introduction to the ethical theory of teleology and deontology Chapter 11. A deeper understanding of the Ethical theories of deontology, teleology and caring ethics Chapter 12. Record keeping in nursing Chapter 13. Law, ethical and professional issues in caring for older people Chapter 14. Child protection: Legal, ethical and professional issues Chapter 15. Mental Health Law (Written by Herman H. Wheeler & Christopher Waggstaff)