Information disclosure: The moral experience of nurses in China

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 347-361

  Pang, Mei Che Samantha ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Chinese culture; Information disclosure; Sincerity; Truth telling

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE EUTHANASIA; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BENEFICENCE; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; CHINA; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORALITY; NURSE; PATERNALISM; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT RIGHT; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESEARCH;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

BENEFICENCE; CHINA; CODES OF ETHICS; DISCLOSURE; ETHICS, NURSING; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; NURSES; PATERNALISM; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT RIGHTS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH; TRUTH DISCLOSURE; VIRTUES;

EID: 0032109916     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/096973398670248856     Document Type: Article

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