Ethics in Perioperative Practice ...

Ethics in Perioperative Practice

Nancy K Kuehl and Nikki Parker, ed 2004 73 pp $70 member/$88 nonmember paperback

Perioperative nurtures must make ethical decisions daily in their work settings, and this volume provides guidelines for making as it is decisions. It is based onward an award-winning series of articles published in the AORN Journal and is an choice nursing continuing education activity forward ethical practices.

This work applies the American Nurses Association's (ANA's) collection of laws of Ethics for Nurses With Interpretative Statements to perioperative settings. The authors provide a framework that perioperative feeds can use to make ethical decisions.

Each of the nine units addresses single provision of the ANA digest and discusses how it applies to perioperative nursing. The units include examples of behaviors that deliberate the ethical obligations of perioperative pampers At the end of each unit, there are of the best review questions with multiple-choice answers. An answer sheet and evaluation of the activity also is provided. The activity is worth 135 contact hours.

Overall, this main division is very well written and easy to read and understand. All perioperative fosters will benefit from using this independent inquiry guide.

This work is available from AORN, Inc, 2170 s Parker Rd, Suite 300, Denver CO 80231-5711

ELLEN O'CONNOR

RN BSN CNOR

STAFF NURSE

WOMEN CHILDREN'S HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL

HUNTSVILLE, ALA

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