Publisher's Synopsis
Interprofessional teams of Health and social care professionals encounter, and respond to, significant ethical challenges and complexity in their everyday work. This scenario-based book explores how to enact ethical values and virtues, while working across the four pillars of professional activity - practice, education, leadership and research. Effective responses to care needs and everyday complexity require teamwork and a holistic approach to individual, family and community needs. They require a health and social professional having an in-depth appreciation of their own professional role, responsibilities and contribution, as well as those of other professions.This book enables readers to engage with, and reflect on, a range of ethical decision-making situations that can occur across the lifecourse and impact interprofessional teams. Each chapter is based around a particular authentic scenarios derived from the experiences of care-recipients and family members involved in the co-production of the book and take place in a range of care contexts - from maternity care to community; from hospital to residential care; and from accident and emergency areas to hospice.Introducing and discussing interprofessional issues from an ethical stance, this is an essential text for health and social care students and practitioners and a resource for IPE facilitators with a commitment to ethics in health and social care practice, research, education and leadership.
