Abstract Schools and universities should equip students with the ability to deal an unpredictable environment in ways that promote worthwhile fulfilling lives. The world is rapidly changing contours of our ethical values have been shaped by we lived in. Education therefore needs cultivate propensity develop refine preserve important insights accrued through experience while responding novel cha...

Veterinary medicine is an ethically challenging profession, but the ethical reasoning abilities of practising veterinarians in the UK have never been formally assessed. This study investigated moral reasoning ability in 65 qualified veterinarians (38 practising and 27 academic) and 33 members of the public in the UK using the Defining Issues Test. Academic veterinarians had higher scores than m...

Swiss-CHAT’s playful approach to public rationing can be considered in terms of deliberative process design as well as in terms of health policy. The process’ forced negotiation of trade-offs exposed unexamined driving questions, and challenged prevalent presumptions about health care demand and about conditions of public reasoning that enable transparent rationing. While the experiment provide...

Drawing upon cross-sectional research with pre- and in-service police officers in the U.K. (N = 571), this paper reports on moral reasoning strategies favored by respondents dealing bespoke work-related quandaries specific to professional practice of policing. The dominant form those dilemmas was deontological (rule-based). second most frequently selected strategy virtue ethical. Further analys...

abstract background: ethical caring is an essential in nursing practice. nurses are confronted with complex situations in which they are expected to autonomously make decisions in delivering good care to patients. although a wide range of studies have examined ethical behavior of nurses, there are still many issues requiring further investigation. the aim of this article is to describe the ethi...

Traditional approaches to bioethics, that privilege impartiality and objectivity and that focus primarily on moral reasoning, are relatively silent on the moral habitability of healthcare environments. Nurses and others in "the trenches" of healthcare are increasingly voicing the need to address everyday ethical issues, interdisciplinary tensions, and systemic concerns, in addition to the ethic...

In times of contagion, the key role of nurses brings fears, dangers, and unique demands. The ethics of such challenges need to be explored and understood. Using Callahan's framework for thinking ethically and Taylor's "worries" of modern life, the author elucidates some of the challenges and then argues that the current approach to pandemic ethics, with its reliance on moral reasoning, is insuf...