ABSTRACT

This work explores the interplay of complexity and values in nurse education from a variety of vantages.

Contributors, who come from a range of international and disciplinary backgrounds, critically engage important and problematic topics that are under-investigated elsewhere. Taking an innovative approach each chapter is followed by one or more responses and, on occasion, a reply to responses. This novel dialogic feature of the work tests, animates, and enriches the arguments being presented. Thought-provoking, challenging and occasionally rumbustious in tone, this volume has something to say to both nurse educators (who may find cherished practices questioned) and students.

Given the breadth and nature of subjects covered, the book will also appeal to anyone concerned about and interested in nursing’s professional development/trajectory.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

chapter 3|19 pages

Moral realism

Is it plausible?

chapter 4|24 pages

No moral compass

A critique of the goals and methods of contemporary nursing ethics education

chapter 7|22 pages

Educational entropy in the 21st century

A failure to adapt?

chapter 8|24 pages

The social mandate of nursing

A mandate unfulfilled

chapter |2 pages

Afterword