Ethical and Professional Issues in Nursing: Perspectives from Europe [Paperback]

This text focuses on various issues that impact directly on professional nursing practice. Each chapter is written by an acknowledged expert and offers nurses the opportunity to increase their understanding of the similarities and differences in national approaches to a range of issues. Each of the authors has considerable experience of European health care and their contributions offer a multinational view that will stimulate discussion and debate. They explore a range of topics of importance to professional nursing practice with perspectives drawn from the UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, Denmark and Ireland.

WIN TADD is Senior Research Fellow in the Academic Department of Geriatric Medicine, University of Wales, College of Medicine, where she is involved in a number of European research projects.
WIN TADD is Senior Research Fellow in the Academic Department of Geriatric Medicine, University of Wales, College of Medicine, where she is involved in a number of European research projects.

Challenges and Issues in Nursing; W.Tadd
The Nurse's Role, Present and Future; G.Evers
Evidence-Based Practice The Role of Nursing Research; S.Holm
Nursing's Role in Shaping European Health Policy; T.Keighley
Political Activity and the Nurse A Professional Duty; M.Ardnt
Interprofessional Relationships: Collaboration or Confrontation; M.Gasu
The Nurse: Autonomous Professional or Subservient Worker?; A.Scott
Do Nurses Have a Special Claim to be Patient Advocates?; P.Allmark
How Effective are Codes of Nursing Ethics?; A.Edgar
Professional Self-Regulation in Nursing; R.Pyne.