李丹主编的《西方护理人文英文读本》是针对护理专业大专高年级学生及本科学生编写的一本西方护理人文英文读本。所有文章均选自英文原版书籍，保证了语言的原汁原味。根据护理专业教学实践的需求，摘录了以下几个方面的文章：西方护理教育、护理先驱、护士工作中涉及的伦理问题、护士的权利和责任、护理人文等，共二十篇。选摘的原则是：贴近护理工作实践，倡导西方多元化的人文护理精神，探讨了一些具有争议性的护理伦理问题，并能切实提出解决方案和处理原则。

Chapter One:International Nursing Education Development
1. Key Issues and Challenges in Nursing Education
2. Nursing Education in the United States
3. Nursing Education in the United Kingdom
4. Extra Reading:Nursing Education Development in China
Chapter Two: Nursing Pioneers
1. Nursing Pledge--Florence Nightingale and Her Contributions
2. Dorothea Orem Nursing Theorist
Chapter Three: Nursing Ethics
Nurses and Clients
1. Parentalism
2. Confidentiality and AIDs
3. Inflicting Agony to Save a Life
Ethical Issues in Nurse-Physician Relationships
4. Treatment of Urinary Tract Infection/200
5. Lying to Protect the Patient
6. Nurses Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Ethical Dilemmas Among Nurses
7. Covering Up for a Fellow Student
8. Judgmental Comments
Chapter Four: Nurses' Rights and Duties
1. When Should Parental Rights 13e Overridden？
2. Downward Accountability
3. Three Cases in the Care of Children
4. Compassion Fatigue: the cost some workers pay for caring
Chapter Five: Humanistic Care of Nursing
l. The Heel Wound in the ER Bed
2. How to Nurse Religious People
Key to Exercises
附录：美国护士资格考试试题范例/ 486
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