Nursing



Nursing

Nursing and ethics

Nurses at all levels and areas of practice experience a range of ethical issues during the course of their day-to-day work. Over the past three decades there has emerged an impressive international scholarship on nursing ethics offering comprehensive philosophical critiques of the kinds of issues nurses face and the processes that might be best used for dealing with them. The degree to which nurses are involved in ethical issues in the work place, how effectively they have been able to deal with them, and the extent to which their formal education has prepared them to deal effectively with ...