Interprofessional Ethics Across the Life Course in Health and Social Care

<p>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 health and social care professionals having an in-depth appreciation of their own professional roles responsibilities and contributions as well as those of other professions.</p><p>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 particular authentic scenarios derived from the experiences of care-recipients and family members involved in the co-production of the book and taking 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.</p><p>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 interprofessional (IPE) facilitators with a commitment to ethics in health and social care practice research education and leadership.</p>