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Guide to Nursing’s Social Policy Statement: Understanding the Profession from Social Contract to Social Covenant 1st Edition PDF by Marsha D. M. Fowler is offered here as a PDF eBook. This professional nursing guide explains the social relationship between nursing and society and the rights, privileges and obligations that arise from that relationship. It develops the ideas behind nursing’s social contract, professional identity, citizenship, civic engagement, civic professionalism, the common good, social ethics and the concept of a social covenant that extends beyond contractual duties. The book also connects Nursing’s Social Policy Statement with the Code of Ethics and the broader public and global-health responsibilities of the profession. It is especially useful for nursing students and leaders who want to understand nursing not only as individual patient care, but as a profession with collective ethical and civic responsibilities.
Designed for nursing students, educators, and professional leaders, this edition provides a structured resource for understanding the reciprocal expectations between nursing and society and their ethical implications.
This listing is for the 1st edition of Guide to Nursing’s Social Policy Statement: Understanding the Profession from Social Contract to Social Covenant. Check the title, edition, authors/editors, and other product information before ordering if you need the book for a particular course, syllabus, examination, or professional reference.
Nursing’s Relationship with Society
This guide examines what society expects of nursing and what nursing can reasonably expect in return. It develops the social contract underlying the profession, including sixteen elements of reciprocal expectation, before considering nursing as occupation, vocation, calling, and profession. Later chapters examine how professions can lose public trust and how civic professionalism and education can help repair that relationship. Fowler then considers whether a covenant of care offers a fuller account of nursing’s responsibilities than contract alone. Questions of citizenship, globalization, social ethics, self-interest, and the common good make the book relevant to professional formation and discussion of nursing’s public role.
Professional and Ethical Questions Explored
The 1st edition covers the following areas:
- Social contract theory: The unwritten relationship between nursing and society.
- Reciprocal expectations: Sixteen elements used to examine professional obligations.
- Nursing as a profession: Distinctions among occupation, vocation, calling, and profession.
- Public trust: The problem of professions breaking faith with society.
- Civic professionalism: Citizenship and professional involvement beyond bedside work.
- Education and identity: Professional formation and ethical conduct.
- Social covenant: Care, commitment, and the common good.
A Reference for Nursing’s Public Responsibilities
The guide is useful for examining professional responsibility at a level broader than an individual clinical encounter. Nursing education and leadership often require an account of why the profession has obligations to the public, how those obligations arise, and what happens when public trust weakens. Fowler’s distinction between contract and covenant provides a framework for discussing those questions. Readers can relate professional identity to citizenship, social ethics, and the common good, then consider how education prepares nurses for those roles. The book supports ethics seminars, leadership teaching, and professional reflection where the central concern is nursing’s relationship with society and its collective responsibilities.
Who uses this book
- Nursing Students Studying Professional Issues
- Nursing Ethics Students
- Registered Nurses Exploring Professional Identity
- Nurse Leaders
- Nursing Faculty
- Nurses Studying Health Policy and Advocacy
- Graduate Nursing Students
- Professional Nursing Organizations and Committees
- Nurses Examining Social Ethics and Civic Professionalism
Also suitable for other nursing professionals who need a deeper understanding of nursing’s social contract, professional obligations, public role and evolving social covenant.
Key Topics Covered
- Nursing social policy
- Social contract theory
- Reciprocal professional expectations
- Nursing as vocation
- Professional identity
- Public trust
- Civic professionalism
- Liberal education
- Social ethics
- Global citizenship
- Nursing and the common good
- Social covenant
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