Pamela Grace

Associate Professor, Adult Health and Ethics, Boston College

Nursing Ethics and Professional Responsibility in Advanced Practice (Jones and Bartlett, 2008)

Addressing a significant topic for the nursing profession in an effective and scholarly manner, Nursing Ethics and Professional Responsibility in Advanced Care equips health care professionals with the tools needed to address the ethically complex issues faced in daily practice, both across specialty areas as well as within an area of specialty practice. The book provides a philosophical base for professional responsibility as it explains complex ethical ideas in accessible terms and presents contemporary examples from actual practice.

 

Dr. Grace covers topics ranging from the nature and source of human rights, social justice, human subjects research, acute care practice, and primary care to contemporary content in gerontology and end of life care.

 

Dr. Grace earned her PhD in philosophy from the University of Tennessee and her MSN and BSN from West Virginia University. She is an experienced critical care nurse and a primary care nurse practitioner. As a nurse scientist at the Munn Center for Nursing Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, she collaborates with colleagues on nursing ethics research endeavors.