Integrating Nursing Functions and Ethics

Nursing ethics and medical ethics.

Nursing Ethics and the Military

Ethics and Cross-Cultural Nursing

This article examines how cultural misunderstandings and language differences generate ethical dilemmas in crosscultural nursing. It explores the consequences of actions that result when health care providers lack an awareness of the value systems of patients that differ from their own. Described are the principles arising from ethical theory, their application to nursing, and incorporation int...

Defining nursing ethics apart from medical ethics.

A dean of a major nursing school recently said. ., "We're not interested in medical ethics; there is virtually nothing there that is pertinent to nursing. Nursing has its own issues, problems, and principles, and they're quite different from, and often opposed to, those of medicine." She might well have gone on to point out that nursing also has its established codes of ethics and doesn't need ...

Teaching ethics in nursing.

Being a professional nurse requires ethical decision making and this in turn necessitates an effective learning process. The active participation of students in the teaching of ethics will contribute to this process. This study was conducted at Hacettepe University School of Nursing, Ankara, Turkey, to determine the views of students about the nursing ethics content in the curriculum, the exami...