Grahame Smith is the subject head of Allied Health in the Faculty of Education, Health and Community, Liverpool John Moores University, Henry Cotton Campus, UK. He is an experienced mental health nurse who has worked in a variety of mental health service settings.

This book is a practical introduction to the skills and knowledge the mental health nurse is professionally required to develop in their journey towards effectively managing complex ethical decisions. Written with the training mental health nurse in mind, this book is a clear and concise guide on how to approach common, ethically-complex situations mental health nurses will eventually find themselves faced with. To ensure professional currency the content of this book is mapped to the NMC's (2010) pre-registration education standards, and uses a scenario-based approach in order to provide a pragmatic and robust resource for pre-registration mental health nursing students.

1. Ethics and Clinical Decision Making
2. The role of the Self in being Ethical
3. Ethical Reasoning: A Pragmatic Approach
4. Recognising Ethical Issues
5. Gathering Facts and Values
6. Ethical Rules and Frameworks
7. Ethical Theories
8. Managing the Outcome
9. Future Development
10. Conclusion