Nursing practice: Compassionate deception and the Good Samaritan

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 383-389

  Tuckett, Anthony ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

compassion; deception; Good Samaritan; truth telling; virtue

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; BENEFICENCE; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; EMPATHY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MODEL; MORALITY; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; RECUMBENCY; REVIEW;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ALTRUISM; BENEFICENCE; DECEPTION; EMPATHY; ETHICS, NURSING; HUMANS; MODELS, NURSING; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; VIRTUES;

EID: 0033182395     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096973309900600504     Document Type: Article

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