Ethics and Law for Australian Nurses

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Student resources

The documents below contain suggested answers to the book’s chapter reflective questions. These are available to users of the book and require a username and password.

The username is: nurses
The password can be found in Chapter 4 of the book, and is the first word under the heading ‘Advocacy’ (page 100 of the print book).

Files can be downloaded by chapter using the links below, or in one zip file.

Chapter 1 Understanding the human person
Chapter 2 The legal system
Chapter 3 The nurse–patient relationship and the regulation of nursing practice
Chapter 4 Consent
Chapter 5 Duty of care and professional negligence
Chapter 6 Culturally safe nursing practice
Chapter 7 Patient information and confidentiality
Chapter 8 ‘Trust me, I’m a nurse’
Chapter 9 Witnessing and making mistakes
Chapter 10 Issues in abortion and euthanasia
Chapter 11 Ethics of aged care: autonomy under threat and the nurse as capacity builder

Instructor resources

Note: These resources are available to adopters of the book, and require a username and password and password. Please contact Cambridge University Press if you require a password, and provide details of course, semester and enrolment as well as your name, university and position. If you do not wish to be added to our contacts database and receive email marketing, please state this in your email.

>> Email to request password access

Note that when you click on a file, you will be prompted for your password just once for each session.

Resources include:

answers to chapter reflective questions
links to relevant video and audio material to complement the book’s content
thought-provoking questions that connect the audiovisual content to student learning.

Files can be downloaded by chapter using the links below, or in one zip file.

Chapter 1 Understanding the human person
Chapter 2 The legal system
Chapter 3 The nurse–patient relationship and the regulation of nursing practice
Chapter 4 Consent
Chapter 5 Duty of care and professional negligence
Chapter 6 Culturally safe nursing practice
Chapter 7 Patient information and confidentiality
Chapter 8 ‘Trust me, I’m a nurse’
Chapter 9 Witnessing and making mistakes
Chapter 10 Issues in abortion and euthanasia
Chapter 11 Ethics of aged care: autonomy under threat and the nurse as capacity builder

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