Within the nursing ethics literature, there has for some time now been a focus on the role
and importance of character for nursing. An overarching rationale for this is the need to …

Nursing ethics centres on how nurses ought to respond to the moral situations that arise in
their professional contexts. Nursing ethicists invoke normative approaches from moral …

A comment to the article" Scepticism About the Virtue Ethics Approach to Nursing Ethics," by
Stephen Holland, published in previous issue is presented. Holland argues against the …

Illness creates a range of negative emotions in patients including anxiety, fear,
powerlessness, and vulnerability. There is much debate on the 'therapeutic'or 'helping'nurse …

The significance of the question 'Is caring a virtue?'lies in the fact that both the ethics of virtue
and the ethics of care have been proposed as alternatives to what may be termed 'bioethics' …

This book proposes a'strong'(action-guiding) account of a virtue-based approach to moral
decision-making within contemporary nursing practice. Merits and criticisms of obligation …

Virtue ethics is an approach that focuses on character with the assumption that a person of
good character will tend to behave in ways that are consistent with their character. A virtue …

During the past few years there has been a shift in the nursing ethics literature from a
concern about ethical actions to a broader concern about the character of the practitioner …

Virtue ethics is proposed as an alternative method for evaluating nursing practice. Unlike
deontological and utilitarian ethical theories, which center on the action and outcome of …

The term" ethics" has several meanings. Sometimes we use the term" ethics" when we refer
to the beliefs or practices of a particular group of people, as in" Jewish ethics" or" Christian …