Understand the legal framework that provides the structure of Nursing!This is the only current text to critically examine the vast array of legal and ethical matters confronting nursing faculty in classroom and clinical settings. Designed to assist students preparing to be nurse educators, academic nursing administrators, and novice and seasoned faculty in making real-life decisions about academic issues within a legal and ethical framework. Replete with practical advice from experts in the fields of nursing, law, and ethics, this text guides the reader through legal and ethical principles, analyses of relevant case-based scenarios, and practical recommendations for handling problems in accordance with existing laws and institutional policy.
Clearly and concisely written and organized, this text provides a comprehensive description of the legal process, including higher education law, the courts, case law, the role of a university attorney, and how to read and cite judicial decisions. Real-world case scenarios and detailed analyses of pertinent issues, including coverage of incivility, discrimination, harassment, academic dishonesty, and freedom of speech, are examined from the perspective of students, faculty, and administrators.
Key Features:
An entire section of legal and ethical cases, featuring a unique philosophical and ethical perspective
Delivers best practices for nursing faculty
Provides tips on when to consult the university attorney, critical elements to consider, actions to take when law and ethics conflict, helpful resources, and a glossary of legal terms
An Instructor's Manual and discussion questions facilitate teaching.
Author Biography:
Mary Ellen Smith Glasgow, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, ANEF, FAAN, is dean and professor, Duquesne University School of Nursing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. An early driver and adopter of innovation, she has developed many innovative academic programs; incorporated the cooperative education model; envisioned and implemented the use of online courses and standardized patients, simulation, and various technologies in the nursing and undergraduate health profession curricula. She advanced online pedagogy, developing one of the largest online nursing programs in the country, utilizing asynchronous and synchronous creative teaching strategies. She recently developed the first dual undergraduate-degree program in nursing and biomedical engineering in the nation at Duquesne University. She was honored with the Villanova University College of Nursing Alumni Medallion for Distinguished Contribution to Nursing Education. She was the former associate editor for Oncology Nursing Forum, where she was responsible for the leadership and professional development feature. She was a trustee of Princeton HealthCare System and was selected as a 2009 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellow. She has more than 70 publications, 135 national and international presentations, and recently coauthored two books: Role Development for Doctoral Advanced Nursing Practice (2011, first edition), the recipient of the 2011 American Journal of Nursing Book-of-the-Year Award, and Legal Issues Confronting Today's Nursing Faculty: A Case Study Approach (2012), the recipient of the 2012 AJN Book-of-the-Year Award. Her research interests include safety and interprofessional simulation and leadership development in nursing, for which she secured $2 million in funding. She was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the National League for Nursing Academy of Nursing Education.
H. Michael Dreher, PhD, RN, FAAN, is the Elizabeth Bell LeVaca dean and professor, School of Nursing & Healthcare Professions, The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York. He has worked in the field of nursing for 32 years and was associate director of BSN programs, director of MSN programs, and founding chair of the Doctoral Nursing Department at Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He developed the first MSN in Nursing Innovation in 2007 and one of the first Doctor of Nursing Practice programs in the country in 2005. This program included the first mandatory doctoral nursing study abroad program in the United States. He regularly contributes to scholarly publications on legal issues in nursing education and advanced practice doctoral nursing education and has coauthored four books, including Philosophy of Science for Nursing Practice: Concepts and Applications (2011, 2016, with Michael D. Dahnke, PhD), which received a 5-Star Doody Review in 2011 and was selected as a Core Doody Title 2011 to 2013; and two first-place American Journal of Nursing Books of the Year: Role Development for Doctoral Advanced Nursing Practice (2011, with Mary Ellen Smith Glasgow) and Legal Issues Confronting Today's Nursing Faculty: A Case Study Approach (2012, with Mary Ellen Smith Glasgow and Toby Oxholm III, JD). He is the former associate editor for Clinical Scholars Review: The Journal of Doctoral Nursing Practice (where he edited a column on practice evidence) and Holistic Nursing Practice (where he edited a column on innovation in health and healing). He was a recent scholar in residence at the University of Connecticut School of Nursing in Storrs, Connecticut. He is well known as an innovator, an architect of forward-thinking nursing curricula, and a national and international scholar on the professional/practice doctorate. He was inducted as a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) in 2012.
Michael D. Dahnke, PhD, is a philosopher and bioethicist. He received his PhD in philosophy from Temple University (2002) and a BA in liberal studies from Bowling Green State University (1990). His dissertation was 'Film and the Aesthetic Construction of Self/Sex/Gender' under the supervision of Dr. Charles Dyke. His areas of specialty include philosophy of science, ethics, aesthetics, philosophy of film, and contemporary continental philosophy. The first edition of this text, Philosophy of Nursing Science for Nursing Practice: Concepts and Application, received a five-star review from Doody's and was selected as a Core Doody Title 2010 to 2012. He is the author of Film, Art, and Filmart: An Introduction to Aesthetics Through Film (2007). Some of his recent publications include 'What We Learn (and Don't Learn) From the Terri Schiavo Autopsy' in the journal Functional Neurology, Rehabilitation, and Ergonomics; 'Devotion, Diversity, and Reasoning' in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry; and 'Emmanuel Levinas and the Face of Terri Schiavo: Bioethical and Phenomenological Reflections on a Public Spectacle and Private Tragedy' in Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. Prior to his move to New York City, he most recently served as clinical associate professor, teaching ethics in the Department of Health Administration and advanced ethical decision making in health care and philosophy of science in the master's nursing department and doctoral nursing department, respectively, at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
