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While not perfect, Clinical Ethics Handbook for Nurses: Emphasizing Context, Communication and Collaboration, edited by Pamela Grace and Aimee Milliken (Springer, 2022), provides an excellent clinical ethics overview for any nurse, nursing student or faculty member, or anyone in clinical practice. The editors have successfully assembled a book that will help point‐of‐care nurses develop their skills in ethical decision‐making and assist nurse educators and nurse leaders in mentoring nurses who may be challenged to exercise moral agency on behalf of good patient care. Throughout the chapters, cases and exercises are introduced, providing practical strategies to improve nurses' confidence in ethical decision‐making both as individuals and in collaboration with others. The book is well grounded in the uniqueness of nursing, making it a must read for anyone who teaches clinical ethics or practices clinical ethics with nurses...
This paper describes a practice innovation: the addition of formal weekly discussions of patients with prolonged PICU stay to reduce healthcare providers’ moral distress and decrease length of stay for patients with life-threatening illnesses. We evaluated the innovation using a pre/post intervention design measuring provider moral distress and comparing patient outcomes using retrospective historical...
Patients and visitors may perceive nurses as professional based on uniform color and style. Nurse image may affect patient and visitor trust and satisfaction with nursing care. Fitted white dresses have been replaced by loose-fitting or scrub white, colored, or patterned pant sets.This study examines nurse professionalism by assessing the nurse image traits of eight pant uniforms as perceived by pediatric...
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