Ethics in Nursing

Currently, the only ethics textbook that is aimed only at nursing students and nurses. The ethics of the nurse has a number of differences from the ethics of the physician that arise from the nurse's mission, competencies and changing position in the healthcare team. After studying the book, nurses will be better oriented in the issue of nursing ethics, they will be able to name ethical dilemmas, argue about them and look for possible solutions. The book will provide them with a guide to decision-making and correct action in difficult situations. The author lectures on ethics for nurses at the Institute of Nursing and Midwifery at the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery of the Faculty of Medicine in Olomouc, at the Institute of Social Medicine, Dept. nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Charles University in Hradec Králové. She has presented on specific topics of ethics in nursing at numerous conferences in the Czech Republic and abroad.