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The second edition of this successful book is about understanding, valuing, managing and developing yourself as a professional. The text leads from basic self-awareness, via examples and exercises, to the importance of building a personal philosophy. The final chapter, on developing yourself and choosing a career path, has been completely revised in line with the UKCC's current emphasis on the importance of lifelong learning.Readers will find the tone of the book warm and motivating.

Today's nurses find themselves in the position of having to redefine their identity. They must ask themselves why they matter, what is important about them as professionals, and how they contribute as team members.Starting from an ethical standpoint, this book explores the nature of nursing and the dilemmas facing today's professionals. The author shares her vision of a new kind of professional - a vision which will empower readers to discover fresh meaning in their work and in their role.

This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. This book aims to fill a gap with an in-depth exploration of nursing ethics content from the western philosophical tradition and some of the methods used in teaching this content. It addresses cross-cultural issues in using specific ethics content. It also reveals the poverty of the present dualism model in nursing ethics and replace this with a more complex and more useful model that invites debate. Its scope is both wide and deep but that is needed to enrich the basis for teaching nursing ethics.

Effective counselling is a cornerstone of all nursing care. This new edition moves beyond the identification of a problem in order to examine fully the practical nature of counselling concentrating in particular on the potentially highly senstive nature of caring. Topics covered include support systems, the bearing of ethical issues on nurisng practice and the special skills required to give appropriate advice in the case of bereavement.The book's theoretical underpinning is once again the authors's own 'Four Questions Model', which has been expanded for this edition: What is happening? What is the meaning of it? What is your goal? and How are you going to do it?All in all, the book comprises a practical guide for student and practising nurses in all disciplines.

This new edition of a highly regarded standard text continues to focus on an ethic of care, while significantly enhancing and strengthening its theoretical basis. Extensively revised and updated in both content and approach, the third edition:oaddresses many of the current pressing issues in nursingoemphasises the importance of relationships in health careoexamines the process of decision makingouses an four-questions model for ethical decision makingooffers material to stimulate discussionoconsiders the international dimensions of nursing ethicsoincludes the newly published NMC Code of Professional Conduct 2002For nurses who practise primary nursing and who are therefore in a special relationship with their patients, this book is particularly appropriate. However, any nurse, whether qualified or in training, will find it easy to read, constructive and thought-provoking.

Globalisation affects health, health care and nursing and has the potential to change the very nature of what we now take for granted in health care and how we obtain it. Nursing as a profession faces multiple challenges, many of them because of globalization. Nurses have always seen their profession as a passport to the world. In the past, the mov

The second edition of this successful book is about understanding, valuing, managing and developing yourself as a professional. The text leads from basic self-awareness, via examples and exercises, to the importance of building a personal philosophy. The final chapter, on developing yourself and choosing a career path, has been completely revised in line with the UKCC''s current emphasis on the importance of lifelong learning.Readers will find the tone of the book warm and motivating.

Today''s nurses find themselves in the position of having to redefine their identity. They must ask themselves why they matter, what is important about them as professionals, and how they contribute as team members.Starting from an ethical standpoint, this book explores the nature of nursing and the dilemmas facing today''s professionals. The author shares her vision of a new kind of professional - a vision which will empower readers to discover fresh meaning in their work and in their role.