NURSING ETHICS

THE STUDENT'S GOPHER

• READ THIS FIRST: Introducing the Student's Gopher
• Introduction to ethics for 1st year nursing students - Geoff Hunt's lecture 2007
• Hitch-hiker's Guide to professional ethics
• Human rights and health care, Part 1: Background
• Human rights and health care, Part 2: Patients
• Ethics in health care research
• Ethics committees in Europe - V Tschudin
• Outline of 'informed consent'
• Confidentiality: topics/simple cases
• Confidentiality: Code of conduct/Disciplinary cases
• Confidentiality: Data Protection Act 1998
• Truth-telling and Honesty
• Raising nursing concerns
• A Nursing perspective on local research ethics committees
• Public interest disclosure act (UK) - general information
• Nurse Graham Pink blows whistle

• Books on Spiritual Care
• Links on spirituality & health
• Florence Nightingale: Bibliography

LINKS

• International Centre for Nursing Ethics (University of Surrey)
• Links to UK healthcare & nursing web sites
• Web sites World-wide
• Online nursing ethics course in USA

Should you be interested in issues of public accountability and whistleblowing in professions and organizations other than nursing (and there are useful comparisons) then please have a look at this site's "Freedom to Care" index: GENERAL INDEX