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Our friends and colleagues at The International Academy of Nursing Editors (INANE) have an ongoing project and list of those nursing journals that meet professional and ethical standards, and that serve the health and nursing concerns of the members of the profession, those whom they serve, and society.

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Nursing Ethics – An international peer reviewed journal that takes a practical approach to this complex subject and relates each topic to the working environment. Articles on ethical and legal issues are written in a comprehensible style and official documents are analysed in a user-friendly way. The international Editorial Board ensures the selection of a wide range of high quality articles of global significance.

Nursing Philosophy – Provides a forum for discussion of philosophical issues in nursing. These focus on questions relating to the nature of nursing and to the phenomena of key relevance to it. For example, any understanding of what nursing is presupposes some conception of just what nurses are trying to do when they nurse. But what are the ends of nursing? Are they to promote health, prevent disease, promote well-being, enhance autonomy, relieve suffering, or some combination of these? How are these ends are to be met? What kind of knowledge is needed in order to nurse? Practical, theoretical, aesthetic, moral, political, ‘intuitive’ or some other? Papers that explore other aspects of philosophical enquiry and analysis of relevance to nursing (and any other healthcare or social care activity) are also welcome and might include, but not be limited to, critical discussions of the work of nurse theorists who have advanced philosophical claims (e.g., Benner, Benner and Wrubel, Carper, Schrok, Watson, Parse and so on) as well as critical engagement with philosophers (e.g., Heidegger, Husserl, Kuhn, Polanyi, Taylor, MacIntyre, Taylor, and so on) whose work informs health care in general and nursing in particular.

Nursology.net

Nursology.net is a resource for the history and future development of nursing knowledge, including empirics, ethics, personal knowing, aesthetics, and emancipatory knowing.

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Books

Fowler, M. (2024). Nursing Ethics, 1880s to the Present: An Archeology of Lost Wisdom and Identity. Routledge. This text provides a detailed history and development of nursing’s ethics, from the 1880s forward, the social context from which it arose and which informs it, its extensive body of literature, and explanations that justify and define the nature of nursing ethics, including the distinction of nursing ethics from bio ethics. In addition, Dr. Fowler’s blog posts on Nursology.net provide explanations of nursing ethics relative to current social, political and professional challenges.

APN Grace, Pamela J., and Melissa K. Uveges. Nursing ethics and professional responsibility in advanced practice. Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2022.

Nursing Ethics and Professional Responsibility in Advanced Practice, Fourth Edition, remains the only comprehensive textbook available on the ethical issues faced by APRNs providing front-line care. It introduces the foundations of professional responsibility and makes difficult philosophical and ethical concepts accessible to students so they can facilitate their own ethical decision-making. The authors, both APRNs and ethicists, demystify the principles and language of healthcare ethics. Beginning from a foundation of nursing practice, this unique resource guides students in developing ethical decision-making skills they can apply to a range of circumstances, from everyday issues to complex dilemmas. The updated Fourth Edition features expanded information on social justice, including advocacy for vulnerable populations and global issues, as well as new discussions on managing social media, electronic health records, and ethical issues specific to CRNAs and CNSs in the perioperative setting.

Book Chapters

Chinn, P. L. (2018). The evolution of nursing’s ethics of caring. In W. Rosa, S. Horton-Deutsch, & J. Watson (Eds.), A Handbook for Caring Science (1 edition, pp. 257–276). Springer Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1891/9780826133892.0003