Das Buch versteht sich als ein Gegenentwurf zu einem ökonomisierten, ergebnisorientierten Pflegeverständnis. Der Autor definiert Pflege auf patientenorientierte Weise, als Antwort auf die besondere Verletzlichkeit des erkrankten Menschen. Patienten legen Wert darauf, dass Pflegende nicht nur fachkompetent sind, sondern auch über ethische Tugenden wie Vertrauenswürdigkeit, Gerechtigkeit, Ehrlichkeit, Mut und Offenheit verfügen. Deshalb plädiert Derek Sellman dafür, pflegerische Ethik auf pr...

In recent years, the human values at the heart of the nursing profession seem to have become side-lined by an increased focus on managerialist approaches to health care provision. Nursing's values are in danger of becoming marginalised further precisely because that which nursing does best - providing care and helping individuals through the human trauma of illness - is difficult to measure, and therefore plays little, if any, part in official accounts of outcome measures.Derek Sel...

There will always be a need for professionals to work collaboratively if they are to provide the highest standard of care. Interprofessional working encourages practitioners to understand the roles of other professionals and to learn from each other, as well as from service users and carers, to ensure the full benefit of this collaboration is realised. It is an essential element of both education and practice for today's professionals.Interprofessional Working in Health and Soc...

Professional values in healthcare are in a state of constant and increasingly rapid change. While all professions now emphasise teamwork and collegiality in practice, fewer are inclined to consider shared or differing values across professions.This interdisciplinary volume explains how health care professions and their values have changed over the last forty years, charting where they have come from, where they are now, and how they might develop in the future. There is coverage of...