Respect for the autonomy of the human being is a cherished principle of biomedical ethics
(Beauchamp and Childress, 2008). The principle derives from Enlightenment liberal …

This article describes how ethical guidelines have been applied while interviewing
psychiatric patients who were recovering from mental illness, especially from psychosis, to …

The ethics of care has been a strong thread in the fabric of nursing. We have advised
patients, negotiated with families, and argued for and against treatment, all in the name of …

Distinguish between the domains of ethics and law. Describe the nurse as a moral agent
and the resources available to support this role. Identify the most common approaches to …

At an interdisciplinary health ethics conference earlier this year, I took the opportunity to ask
the 200 strong audience to raise their hands to indicate whether they had ever been …

Research is an essential element of innovation and quality improvement in health care. As
such, it aims at something of great collective value. It can also be enormously personally …

KEY TERMS should be answerable legally, morally, ethically, or socially for one's activities.
Autonomy Personal freedom and the right of competent people to make choices …

Medical ethics, which later became known as bioethics, stemmed from rapid medical,
ethical, and technological advances and increasing concern about the mistreatment of …

According to the ANA Code of Ethics, nurses are held to “high standards of compassion and
respect for all—especially those most vulnerable”(Taylor 2010, p. 3) and recognize that the …

All health professionals have a code of ethics in addition to some type of international
understanding of what constitutes the ethical core of a given profession. The International …