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The ethical enterprise of nursing

Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1992
This paper examines the ethical nature of nursing Examples are taken from coronary care units A critical view is taken whereby it is felt that nursing models do not truly reflect this nature It is suggested that nurses make most ethical decisions without dilemma using intuition The traditions behind using this intuition are examined Such normative ...
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Nursing ethics and the perspectivity of nursing: Response to ‘30 years of nursing ethics’

Nursing Ethics
Nursing Ethics can look back on an impressive 30-year history. With the use of scientific methods, authors from increasingly linguistically and culturally diverse regions shed light on the 'ethical core' of nursing 1 through the breadth of the chosen approaches, the diversity of the topics covered, and the contexts in which nursing takes place. In this
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Reflections on nursing ethics

Nursing Ethics, 2012
My professional career started in a regional hospital in south-eastern Ethiopia where no nurse had set foot before. I had to take a bus part of the way and a truck to reach the town as the roads were impassable in rainy season. The hospital had two expatriate doctors and several health assistants.
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An introduction to ethics in nursing

Nursing Standard, 2007
Ethics is concerned with 'right and wrong', although agreeing what is 'right' can be challenging. An understanding of ethics is essential to the delivery of skilled professional care. It is vital that nurses appreciate the value of ethics in their work.
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Is there a Unique Nursing Ethic?

Nursing Science Quarterly, 2003
There is no agreement in the nursing literature as to the meaning of the term, nursing ethics. Proposed definitions refer to nurses' moral decision-making and behaviors, ethical conflicts, and analysis of ethical issues that arise within nurses' practice.
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Reconceptualizing Nursing Ethics

Scholarly Inquiry for Nursing Practice, 1990
This paper offers a comparative analysis of four central concepts of moral theory—autonomy, moral posture, universal vs. particular, and the role of rules and principles. These concepts are compared as they function in traditional rule-and-principle ethics and the more recently explicated ethic of care.
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An African Ethic for Nursing?

Nursing Ethics, 2000
This article derives from a doctoral thesis in which a particular discourse was used as a ‘paradigm case’. From this discourse an ethic set within a South African culture arose. Using many cultural ‘voices’ to aid the understanding of this narrative, the ethic shows that one can build on both a ‘justice’ and a ‘care’ ethic.
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The Ethics of Respect in Nursing

Nursing Science Quarterly, 2005
The term respect is pervasive in biomedical ethical literature and in all disciplines. It is a concept used to connote dignity, reverence, and regard. To demonstrate respect implies actions of doing what is good. When viewed in the context of nursing research, practice, and education, questions abound as to how respect is offered to others.
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The professional ethic in nursing*

Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1978
The author distinguishes two significant characteristics of a profession, ‘professional service’ and ‘sense of responsibility’, and relates these to the obligations of the professional.Ethical concepts, and the professional code of conduct, are discussed in the context of recent events and publications in the United Kingdom.
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Nurses, ethical dilemmas and the ethical education of nurses

2021
Andrew Peterson, James Arthur, Jinu Varghese   +2 more
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