Bioethical decision making in nursing / Gladys L. Husted...[et al]

Preceded by Ethical decision making in nursing and health care / by James H. Husted, Gladys L. Husted. 4th ed. c2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ethical foundations -- The ethical journey taken by patient and nurse -- The nurse/patient agreement -- The bioethical standards and their role as preconditions of the agreement -- The nature of the ethical context -- Contemporary ethical systems -- Nursing practice intersections: legal decision making within a symphonological ethical perspective / Suzanne Edgett Collins -- Practice-based ethics and the bioethical standards as lenses -- Moral distress -- The power of analysis through extremes -- Elements of human autonomy -- Virtues as resources.