Bioethics for Nurses: A Christian Moral Vision
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Bioethics for Nurses: A Christian Moral Vision  -     By: Alisha N. Mack DNP, Charles C. Camosy Phd

Bioethics for Nurses: A Christian Moral Vision

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. / 2022 / Paperback

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* COVID-19 highlighted the bravery of unheralded medical professionals. Mack and Camosy recall the Christian origins of modern nursing, urge whole-person consideration, and encourage professional decisions based on conscience. They explore case studies, discoursing on the ethics of specific situations with far-reaching implications, and discuss the future of post-pandemic nursing, making this resource especially timely. 256 pages, softcover from Eerdmans.

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Title: Bioethics for Nurses: A Christian Moral Vision
By: Alisha N. Mack DNP, Charles C. Camosy Phd
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 256
Vendor: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Publication Date: 2022
Dimensions: 8.50 X 5.50 (inches)
Weight: 11 ounces
ISBN: 080287892X
ISBN-13: 9780802878922
Stock No: WW878922

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Recovering the foundation of faith in a profession enduring the pressures of a rapidly changing health-care system.

If you are one of the millions of Christian nurses or nursing students in the United States, you already know that there is no real way to separate your faith commitments from your professional vocation—nor would you want to. Especially amid the bedlam of the COVID-19 pandemic, faith has given countless nurses the strength to carry on and be there for their patients, one exhausting shift after another.

Bioethics for Nurses, the first book of its kind, is for nurses and nurses in training who still believe in treating the whole person—not just their medical condition. It is for those committed to living out the love of Jesus Christ through the warm, relational care they provide for all hurting and vulnerable people—including those in underserved populations—each of whom has the dignity of a human being made in the image of God. It is also for those who rightly see themselves as crucial members of medical teams alongside doctors (and sometimes without doctors present at all), empowered to exercise professional judgment while protecting their consciences.

With the combined wisdom of Alisha Mack, a professor of nursing with many years of clinical experience, and Charles Camosy, an award-winning bioethicist and theologian, Bioethics for Nurses advances a vision for a holistic Christian notion of health care with practical applications for everyday relevance on the job. Through a series of case studies in the second part of the book, Mack and Camosy explore the ethics of specific situations with far-reaching implications for nurses working in a range of fields. In the last part, the authors reflect on the future of nursing after COVID-19, making this an especially timely book for a pivotal moment in the history of the profession. Now, more than ever before, the wisdom of the ancient tradition of Christianity is needed to speak into the profound contemporary realities we are facing together as a culture.

Author Bio

Alisha N. Mack, DNP, RN, FNP-C, is assistant professor of nursing at Indiana Wesleyan University and a doctorally prepared family nurse practitioner. Having previously worked as a registered nurse at Memorial Hospital in South Bend, she now works in family practice as a nurse practitioner. She is a member of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and is certified as a health coach through the National Society of Health Coaches. She has also received awards in her research in lifestyle medicine.

Charles C. Camosy, PhD, is associate professor of theological and social ethics at Fordham University. His other books include Losing Our Dignity: How Secularized Medicine Is Undermining Fundamental Human Equality, and his published articles have appeared, among other places, in the American Journal of Bioethics, the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Health Progress (the official journal of the Catholic Health Association of the United States), The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Daily News, and America.

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Part One: Recovering a Nursing Vision
          1. The Christian Origins of Contemporary Nursing
          2. The Shifting Role of the Nurse
          3. Faith, Science, and Health Care
          4. A Christian Vision for Nursing Bioethics
Part Two: Christian Nursing Bioethics in Action
          5. Made Equal in the Divine Image
          6. From Fertilization to Natural Death
          7. Accepting Death, Never Killing
          8. Matthew 25 and Human-Created Distinctions
          9. The Last Shall Be First
          10. Never Not in Relationship
          11. With Everything That We Are
Part Three: The Future of a Profession on the Move
          12. Protecting Nurse Consciences
          13. The Rightful Place of Nurses on Health-Care Teams
          14. COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond
Further Reading
Index

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