Annotated Bibliography: Nursing Ethics, Research, and Social Justice

This annotated bibliography provides a detailed overview of various nursing publications, encompassing a wide range of topics relevant to the field. The bibliography includes summaries of seminal works on nursing theories, such as those by Alligood, Masters, and Smith, exploring their frameworks and applications in professional practice. It also delves into nursing ethics, examining ethical dilemmas and the importance of moral agency as discussed in works by Zaccagnini, Butts, and the South African Nursing Council's code of ethics. Furthermore, the bibliography covers public health nursing, human rights, and the role of nurses in promoting ethical practices, as highlighted in the works of Ivanov and Parahoo. Additionally, it addresses contemporary issues like euthanasia in nursing, as explored by Pesut, and social justice concerns within the nursing context, drawing from the works of Everingham, Gerston, Hursh, Korpi, Rosanvallon, and Sensoy. Overall, the bibliography serves as a valuable resource for understanding the multifaceted aspects of nursing practice, research, and ethical considerations, providing insights into the historical and contemporary challenges facing the profession.

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Alligood, M. R. (2017). Nursing Theorists and Their Work-E-Book. London: Elsevier Health Sciences.
The author of this book attributes to the works of nursing theories from all over the world.
Several theories from around the world are featured including findings by international theorists
that have been decoded to English from other languages. Several nursing theories are addressed
in this book to expose nursing students at any level to a wide range of nursing theories and
different types of theoretical work. Information and practice in the field of nursing frequently
change, as a new study and experience widen our knowledge, professional practice, research
techniques, and healthcare. Studies and research have contributed drastically to the development
of nursing in pursuit of understanding nursing as a scientific discipline. Nurses are encouraged to
carry out basic and clinical nursing research to find a scientific base for the care of patients.
Masters, K. (2014). Nursing theories: A framework for professional practice. New York City: Jones &
Bartlett Publishers.
The study focused on the identification of competence that is essential in nursing education and
the benefits of competence in the improvement of their profession. Competence development is
an important part of a nurse's training and sets the standard in patient safety and practice. The

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author tries to identify the competencies that are required in nursing education and the
significance of competence development in their ongoing profession. The study finds out that
competencies are a part of the nursing curriculum and practicing nurses need continuous nursing
education courses to be more competent. In future nurses need to be competent in information
and technology as healthcare will be more dependent on machines.
Smith, M. C. (2015). Nursing theories and nursing practice. London: FA Davis.
This book provides a viewpoint that nursing is a certified professional with a body of information
and knowledge that directs its practice. Nursing theories are an essential part of healthcare
practice. Despite the complexity and perception of nursing theories, they should be utilized by
nurses to frame their actions, thinking and being in the world. Most of the nursing theories are
practice in nature and ease interactions with patients, colleagues, nursing students and other
stakeholders in health-related services. The author aims to motivate nursing students and nurses
to improve healthcare and quality of life for individuals who are beneficiary of nursing care.
Zaccagnini, M. &. (2019). The doctor of nursing practice essentials: A new model for advanced practice
nursing. London: Jones & Bartlett Publishers.
Expansion and developing the body of literature documents the issues of nurses' moral problems
when they are incapable of carrying out an action that they identify to be the best interest of the
patient. A reason for the lack of awareness is the ethics education in academics, inconsistency of
nurses' education, and the focus on dilemmas rather than global everyday practice issues. The

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author claims that the proliferation of nursing programs should focus as they are on leadership in
practice settings, presenting a unique chance to prepare nurse leaders who are skilled and
informed about the ethical composition of everyday nursing practice.
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Butts, J. B., & Rich, K. L. (2019). Nursing ethics. Jones & Bartlett Learning.
The author of this book finds multiple features of the nurse’s moral agency that permits nurses to
react to ethical issues in their work. Nurses' ethical ways of life are developing in intricacy
given drastic changes that are a result of scientific improvement. Technological development
processes are aimed at regulating patient care. Sometimes, nurses think that they cannot react
sufficiently to the ethical matters that they face because of their atrociousness and nurse’s duty to
continue to care for the patient regardless of the hitches. The study identifies and explores how
the setting of treatment can compile a nurse’s moral responses resulting in moral agony. Ethics
education and training is an essential component in the understanding, development, and
nourishment of nurses’ moral agency.
Council, S. A. N. (2013). Code of ethics for nursing practitioners in South Africa. Pretoria: South
African Nursing Council, 3-5
Nurses play a critical role in health system development and functioning, and also to the patient's
health outcome. The contribution of nurses as healthcare providers, promoting health and

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providing important health services is unquestionable. Nurses are required to act under policies
and legislations monitoring their profession so that they can handle complications and intervene
accordingly. The nursing practice is guided by knowledge and skills which is the base to ethical
decision making in healthcare. South Africa is experiencing a nursing crisis characterized by
declining interest in the profession, shortage of nursing, and lack of professional code of conduct
among others. In reaction to the aggregated number of lawsuits due to nursing errors and
negligence increasing especially due to unprofessional or unethical behavior by nurses, also as a
result of awareness of patients right, nursing practitioners require mediation by the regulatory
body the South Africa Nursing Council. The importance of this study is to improve nursing care
with the main focus on maintaining ethical principles from the South Africa Nursing Council.
That will positively influence on the improvement of healthcare.
Ivanov, L. L., & Oden, T. L. (2013). Public health nursing, ethics, and human rights. Public health
nursing, 30(3), 231-238.
This book focuses on the need for nurses to stress human rights protection and to sustain the
values and ethics of the nursing profession. This book aims to bring the subject of human rights
to the forefront and offer nurses with certain opportunities to promote and protect human rights
in every practice environment. The author denotes the connection between the nurse’s ethical
obligation, professional nursing practice and the idea of human rights. Nurses bear the basic duty
of nursing care that their patients get quality service and are responsible for their practice. Nurses
work together with other health professionals and the public to safeguard human rights, reduce
health inconsistency and promote health diplomacy.

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Parahoo, K. (2014). Nursing research: principles, process, and issues. Macmillan International Higher
Education.
The purpose of the study was to offer an overview of nursing research over the years. It noted
that nursing practice has drastically developed over the last decade. Nursing is a practical
discipline and has been used to provide research-based interventions and procedures. Evidence-
based practice in professional nursing practice is now widely applied and established as an
important aspect of nursing. Nurses need to be more inspired and motivated to provide quality
and satisfactory services and also to conduct and publish research in conjunction with research
bodies. Infrastructure and opportunities should also be created to boost nursing research.
Training nurses with higher academic degrees should also be prioritized to advance research.
Pesut, B., Greig, M., Thorne, S., Storch, J., Burgess, M., Tishelman, C., ... & Janke, R. (2019). Nursing
and euthanasia: A narrative review of the nursing ethics literature. Nursing ethics,
0969733019845127.
Focused attention has been on the specific acts of eligibility assessment and administration,
nurses are much aware that there is a lot of tangled in assisting patients and concerning a positive
end of life procedure. The decisions around wishes and preferences on matters concerning the
end of life can contain numerous conversation and reflection over a long period. The process of

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developing and understanding someone’s value and sharing them with those involved is very
much a process rather than an event. Over the coming days, the evidence base will increase to
better understanding us as to how nurses can best support patients, and how healthcare methods
can best support patients and nurses. Meanwhile, we must warrant that nursing perceptions are
textured and heard in the public dialogue and that our profession shows leadership in ensuring
that patients facing the end of life decisions are optimally assisted.
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Everingham, C. (2018). Social justice and the politics of community. Routledge
The author describes social justice as a process and not an outcome, which pursues the equitable
distribution of resources, opportunity, and responsibilities. The study indicates that there are
many health inequalities concerning and contained within countries. it finds out that the rate of
death and poor self-assessment of health are considered high in a group of lower socioeconomic
status. In reaction to distress about such widening inequalities, the commission on Social
Determinates was introduced to guide how to reduce them.
Gerston, L. N. (2014). Public policymaking in a democratic society: A guide to civic engagement.
Routledge.
Politics is the primary means for citizens to influence an agenda that affect public policy in a
democratic country. Citizens are encouraged to participate more effectively in the decision-

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making process, community service and to exercise their civic responsibility. In developing
nations, the creation of public feature resolution of issues embedded in the policy community
and policy network. Its preparation does not only need decisions taken from top office but
includes engagement and enticement of several new actors bringing in extra actors and
enticement is essential for policy design. the author tries to find out the process of making public
policy in developing countries. Including the dominant model, tools of policy, bureaucratic
politics, integration, and involvement of actors. The means to positive policy results have
highlighted the agenda of citizen involvement and focusing on four important areas of quality,
politics, process, culture and passing policies in theory and practice.
Hursh, D. W., & Ross, E. W. (2014). Democratic social education: Social studies for social change.
Routledge.
The study questions what social studies educators can do to assist create a democratic society in the
aspect of the present antidemocratic desire of individualism, greed, and intolerance. It also
responds to counts questions in theoretical analyses of society and education. It also offers
educators and researchers with ideas and accounts of practice that encounter the ignored meaning
of democracy, culture, evaluation, and citizenship within the dedication of social change. Social
studies education can be used as a means of nurturing student’s abilities essential for decision
making in some detailed sociopolitical form, mainly concerning personal and social problems
that openly affect students.

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Korpi, W. (2018). The democratic class struggle. Routledge.
This study review class relations, voting and politics in Sweden in comparison to distributive
politics and conflict in eighteen OECD states. Its fundamental theme is the improvement of class
relations in capitalize democracies or free-enterprise. It is normally assumed that elections in the
industrial democracies reflect a democratic class struggle. The lower-income voter is in support
of parties of the left which the rich voters safeguard their interest by supporting for parties of the
right. This conclusion creates a series of implicit assumptions; first, it assumes that most
democracies have majoritarian political parties and second, it also assumes that the typical form
of the political competition follows the responsible party’s models. When this conclusion is
scrutinized in light of the existing evidence on the nature of the party system, voting behavior
and political completion they are ruled to be largely implausible.
Rosanvallon, P. (2014). The society of equals: Restoring democratic equality in relations. Juncture,
20(4), 249-257.
The author outlines the improvement of the notion of equality that takes its motivation from the
radical vision of France and the united states while recognizing what is decent about our modern
diversity and individualism. The study emphasizes on economic inequality, focusing on several
evolving efforts in the past to comprehend the problems and find means of addressing economic
and inequality injustice. During the last century, there were only two primary means of reducing

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inequality. One was the minimization of social risks such as disease and unemployment, and
number two was reducing income gaps. The determination to reduce the harmful results of
inequality in Europe and the United States, including high taxation of corporate profits, social
philanthropy, the formation of foundations and creation of welfare state has been inadequate.
Sensoy, Ö., & DiAngelo, R. (2014). Respect differences? Challenging the common guidelines in social
justice education. Democracy and Education, 22(2), 1.
In social justice education, guidelines are established for classroom debates. The author
scrutinizes the limits of these guidelines in attaining the objectives of social justice education,
claiming that they are not reactive to power relations. Instead of creating a supportive
environment for dialogue, these guidelines, in reality, can interfere with realizing social justice
education objectives. He also addresses efforts to involve alternative strategies for responding to
authority in the social justice classroom. Guidelines regularly viewed as an important aspect of
building the community and producing the democratic climate essential for the debating of social
justice content. This shows that sharing personal feelings, opinions and connections and the
advancement of this sharing through guidelines is viewed as the foundation of social justice. The
author believes that instead of guidelines creating an equitable environment, they propel
inequality in the classroom. Inequality is achieved through the implanted notion that it is possible
to create an environment that is experienced by all students as validating and safe, irrespective of
their social position.

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Shields, C. M. (2014). Leadership for social justice education: A critical transformative approach. In
International handbook of educational leadership and social (in) justice (pp. 323-339). Springer,
Dordrecht.
The study investigated the connection between practices of social justice and educational
leadership. The study has three distinct objectives: first, it tries to define the meaning of
educational leadership for social justice. Secondly is the evocative documentation of school
leadership behaviors which highlight social inequalities and injustices within schools. Third, it
focuses on the improvement of leadership preparation agendas that include social justice as a
curricular base. The book is restricted to the evaluation of literature documenting the connection
between leadership agenda and social justice, building towards a curriculum and addresses
certain pedagogies. It takes a chronological approach stirring from the early theoretical origin of
social justice to primary studies on preparation programs. It also highlights on subsequent
generation experimental research focused on curriculum development and social justice
pedagogies. The study noted some imperatives that the field of education leadership must
address to achieve leadership for social justice. They include: identifying and developing
community and educational leaders who are dedicated and active in eliminating conditions of
social injustices, identify new ways to monitor the progress and acquisition of democratic
knowledge and skill among young people. Institute and maintain dialogue among community
leaders, educational practitioners and university scholars in the matter of advancing equity and
excellence in community and school.

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Tyler, T., Boeckmann, R. J., Smith, H. J., & Huo, Y. J. (2019). Social justice in a diverse society.
Routledge.
The author of this book addresses the issues of social justice in line with equality strands, gender,
race, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, religious belief, and disability while on the other
hand questioning the bounded nature of such categorizations. This book provides a basis for
thinking about oppression and how to overcome it. It puts into consideration the principle value
essential to the use of the term oppression. It further debates on the nature of oppression,
different stage and what keeps it in. it also discusses developing the sense of injustices and the
tactical ways of defeating injustice. The study finds out that the quality of treatment is associated
with feelings of positive self-esteem and admiration.

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References
Alligood, M. R. (2017). Nursing Theorists and Their Work-E-Book. London: Elsevier Health Sciences.
Masters, K. (2014). Nursing theories: A framework for professional practice. New York City: Jones &
Bartlett Publishers.
Smith, M. C. (2015). Nursing theories and nursing practice. London: FA Davis.
Zaccagnini, M. &. (2019). The doctor of nursing practice essentials: A new model for advanced practice
nursing. London: Jones & Bartlett Publishers.
Unit 3
Butts, J. B., & Rich, K. L. (2019). Nursing ethics. Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Council, S. A. N. (2013). Code of ethics for nursing practitioners in South Africa. Pretoria: South
African Nursing Council, 3-5.
Ivanov, L. L., & Oden, T. L. (2013). Public health nursing, ethics and human rights. Public health
nursing, 30(3), 231-238.
Parahoo, K. (2014). Nursing research: principles, process and issues. Macmillan International Higher
Education.
Pesut, B., Greig, M., Thorne, S., Storch, J., Burgess, M., Tishelman, C., ... & Janke, R. (2019). Nursing
and euthanasia: A narrative review of the nursing ethics literature. Nursing ethics,
0969733019845127.
Unit 6
Everingham, C. (2018). Social justice and the politics of community. Routledge.

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Gerston, L. N. (2014). Public policymaking in a democratic society: A guide to civic engagement.
Routledge.
Hursh, D. W., & Ross, E. W. (2014). Democratic social education: Social studies for social change.
Routledge.
Korpi, W. (2018). The democratic class struggle. Routledge.
Rosanvallon, P. (2014). The society of equals: Restoring democratic equality in
relations. Juncture, 20(4), 249-257.
Sensoy, Ö., & DiAngelo, R. (2014). Respect differences? Challenging the common guidelines in social
justice education. Democracy and Education, 22(2), 1.
Shields, C. M. (2014). Leadership for social justice education: A critical transformative approach.
In International handbook of educational leadership and social (in) justice (pp. 323-339).
Springer, Dordrecht.
Tyler, T., Boeckmann, R. J., Smith, H. J., & Huo, Y. J. (2019). Social justice in a diverse society.
Routledge.