This new edition of a highly regarded standard text continues to focus on an ethic of care, while significantly enhancing and strengthening its theoretical basis. Extensively revised and updated in both content and approach, the third edition:oaddresses many of the current pressing issues in nursingoemphasises the importance of relationships in health careoexamines the process of decision makingouses an four-questions model for ethical decision makingooffers material to stimulate discussionoconsiders the international dimensions of nursing ethicsoincludes the newly published NMC Code of Professional Conduct 2002For nurses who practise primary nursing and who are therefore in a special relationship with their patients, this book is particularly appropriate. However, any nurse, whether qualified or in training, will find it easy to read, constructive and thought-provoking.Places ethics within the caring context of nursing