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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 |
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 vocationnor 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 personnot 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 peopleincluding those in underserved populationseach 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.
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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