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Teaches healthcare providers how to effectively identify, evaluate, and resolve ethical issues in clinical medicine.

Builds your understanding of the science of emotion and delivers practical insights for recognizing, acknowledging, and responding to patients' emotions, as well as your own.

Four-step method for improving communication and managing conflict in any healthcare setting.

Designed to be highly practical and to help you develop your professionalism skills. Chapters include clinical scenarios all based on the authors’ personal experience in teaching and clinical care, learning exercises to stimulate active participation of readers, and “challenge cases.”

New sections address issues of posthumanism (or transhumanism) and business ethics, with discussion of topics that include cybernetics, cloning, human dignity, embryonic stem cell research, nanotechnology, anti-aging interventions, health services management ethics, and managed care, among other subjects.

Intended to assist Certificate Holders and Candidates in maintaining a high level of ethical conduct and in providing for the protection, safety, and comfort of patients.

Purpose is to achieve high levels of ethical consciousness, decision making, and practice by the members of the profession.

A guide for action based on social values and needs. It guides nurses in everyday choices and it supports their refusal to participate in activities that conflict with caring and healing.