sexta-feira, 24 de outubro de 2008

Case studies in nursing ethics

Identifying Evaluations in Nursing


"Real cases demonstrate the various kinds of values in clinical decisions made by nurses in quite ordinary, routine nursing practice. Neither cases raises traditional, dramatic ethical issues, but both clearly force the nurse to make ethical decisions. Moreover, they both involve many kinds of evaluations that are not ethical at all. The evaluations include matters of aesthetics (which of two environments is more pleasant), matter of law (whether is legally acceptable to risk a baby life to conforme to the wiches of its parents), and matters of what are sometimes called value orientations (fundamental stances about such basic issues as whether a nurse ought to try dominate nature or let nature take its course). However, questions of moral evaluation become central to the cases as they develop, and basic questions are raised about what the nurse ought to do in the moral sense. In analysing these cases, notice the evaluations that occur and determine which of the evaluation are moral."
Fry, S.; Veatch, R.

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