Professional knowledge doesn't guarantee you'll make the right decisions when it comes to
professional ethics Ethics in Social Work introduces students, practitioners, and educators to …

It should be apparent to anyone who thinks about the. issue even for a moment that health
care today is no simple matter involving single clinicians and individual patients. Care is …

Abstract “Conscientious objection” typically implies refusal to participate in an action based
on strongly held ethical beliefs. It is historically associated with refusing to fight on the …

Change is inevitable in nursing and in medical practice, in the education to prepare
practitioners for both fields, and in plans for the delivery of their serivces to people. But, if …

Social and economic forces that once made the outpatient department the stepchild of the
hospital are today increasing the department's uses and status. Nurses have long been dè …

Once medically defined as such, terminal illness describes a change in the status of illness
from that of expected recovery to that of impending death. The literature abounds with …

Nursing ethics, prior to nursing's colonization by bioethics, bears little resemblance to
bioethics. Early nursing ethics is nurse-centric, relationally based, virtue-based, addresses …

Excerpt In estrangement one seeks pretexts. Proverbs 18: 1 At this time when more people
than ever before are involved in providing medical care, patients are becoming more and …

Nursing Education in Thanatology is an excellent source book for planning thanatology
courses or for integrating concepts of thanatology into a nursing curriculum. As the formal …

The author is indebted to all the members of her committee, who in one way or another,
offered their continuing support, encouragement and assistance during the period in which …