Integral to any discipline is its ethical foundation for practice. The AmericanNurses Association (ANA) describes theNursingCode of Ethics as the non-negotiable ethical standard of the nursing profession, serving as an expression of nursing’s commitment to society. The code consists of 9 provisions with interpretative statements (herein italicized under each provision). Each interpretative stat...

The dislocation of the pandemic caused social convulsions around world. Well meaning members middle and rule class seem to have rediscovered humans – essential workers, employees, under-represented minorities, children. In our rush atone sins redress imbalances, we are not stopping define words nor, as pragmatists would want us to, think through what moral precepts mean in practice. Teams that ...

The prohibition on taking human life is one of the cornerstones of Buddhist ethics, but there is often confusion about the interpretation of this prohibition in different contexts. In his commentary on the third pàràjika in the Samantapàsàdikà, Buddhaghosa sets out to clarify the legal provisions of the monastic precept against taking life. The root text and his comments on it are relevant to t...

Death is inevitable, but dying well is not. Despite the role of medical professionals as overseers of dying in contemporary society, there is comparatively little discourse among doctors about the constituents of a good death. In the 15th century, by contrast, the Ars moriendi portrayed normative medieval ideas about good and bad deaths. At a time when dying could be viewed as a performed battl...

based on a new approach to the holly qur'an and to the behavior of the wise, the present paper studies political taghiyyeh (act of concealing one's own belief). after elaborating on the concept of taghiyyeh briefly, personal and socio-political taghiyyeh are explained. with respect to personal taghiyyeh, there is a discussion over the obligatory precepts of the types of taghiyyeh base...

This article addresses the concept, practices strategies, impact, and implications of downsizing in a commen way, followed by Indian context of downsizing in India. In the light of the above statement, it presents some cases on downsizing with a view to providing a multidimensional picture of this paramount phenomenon. The study express that there is a general tendency with firms to resort to d...