Nursing Law and Ethics

theory 6or a unified set of theories) to account for all our ethical judgements. Given such an overarching theory we could ident ...

Finally ,and paradoxically ,one of the benefits of philosophical ethics is an awareness of its own limitations. Being philosophi ...

ingly important in health care ± in the form of evidence based guidelines ,clinical governance ,performance management and so on ...

Peters ,R.S. 61981) Reason and Habit: The Paradox of Moral Education. InMoral Development and Moral Education.Allen and Unwin , ...

Chapter 3 The Professional Dimension: Professional Regulation in Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting Reg Pyne In one sense, t ...

register and providing some protection of what they regard as their professional territory. 3.1 The present nursing regulatory s ...

providing, in such manner as it thinks fit, advice for nurses, midwives and health visitors on standards of professional conduct ...

It is also open to the committee, where it considers it necessary as an urgent measure in the public interest, to order the inte ...

public confidence. Why this is so and what alternatives might serve the public interest better are points that need to be explor ...

to accept the appropriateness of that, at least as far as medicine was concerned, stating: `An instructive way of looking at pro ...

of the GMC ± published a critique,APatient Voice at the GMC,ofthe Council's style, operation and the effect of some of its decis ...

and 27 members with a professional majority and a minimum of one third lay members. The Government stated its acceptance of the ...

continuing primary legislation or the Orders creating the new bodies referred to above, the regulation of the several related gr ...

the overriding purpose of statutory regulation is service to and protection of the public, the regulatory system should be desig ...

It later adds: `They should be invited to join health professionals to participate in public policy development to ensure that t ...

twenty-first century system of professional regulation. The powers the Government has taken to itself in the Health Act 1999 to ...

Later she adds: `It can also be helpful to remember that while each health worker may be an expert in their own area, faced with ...

and Midwifer yCouncil[19] orModernising Regulation: The New Health Professions Council[20] appear to have addressed what I see a ...

`cooperate wherever reasonably practical with .i) employers of prospective registrants, .ii) persons who provide, assess or fund ...

decision is announced. The decision to introduce an Appeal Tribunal as a first stage in the process of appealing against decisio ...