Nursing Ethics: Across the Curriculum and Into Practice, Second Edition
Janie B. Butts, DSN, RN, The University of Southern Mississippi, School of Nursing, Karen L. Rich, PhD (c), RN, The University of Southern Mississippi, Long Beach, MS

Newly revised and updated, the Second Edition of this leading ethics textbook integrates nursing ethics content throughout the nursing curriculum, preparing students and professionals for moral issues encountered in daily practice. Nursing Ethics: Across the Curriculum and Into Practice derives its theoretical foundations from clinical evidence and case studies. Emphasizing the collaborative nurse-patient relationship in care, this text includes decision-making approaches and models, rationale for decisions, and management of care for various situations. 

New to the Second Edition: 

• Reworked structure reflects two new large sections:

• Foundations of Nursing Ethics and Bioethics
• Nursing Across the Lifespan

• Two new chapters

          • Chapter 3: Ethics and Professional Nursing Practice

          • Chapter 4: Leadership and Organizational Ethics 

• Revised “across the lifespan” chapters to include information and expanded content

• Key new features

          • Key terms at the beginning of each chapter

          • Integrated ethics theories and philosophies

          • Chapter Summaries

          • Multiple-choice test questions at the end of each chapter

          • ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements (2001) included