This new primary ethics textbook is uniquely designed to integrate ethics content into the clinical nursing curriculum and to be used throughout the nursing curriculum. This textbook is designed to ensure that the nursing student benefits from a systematic coverage of clinical ethics, moving from simple ethical issues to more complex. The book covers clinical ethics in theory and practice by building upon the foundations of ethics using the traditional clinical practice content areas such as children and adolescents, adult, critical care, and women"s health.