The ethics of the caring conversation

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 138-148

  Fredriksson, Lennart ^a,b   Eriksson, Katie ^b  

^a Åbo Akademi University ^*  (Sweden)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Caring conversation; Communication; Ethics; Paul Ricoeur

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; EMPATHY; ETHICS; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LOVE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORALITY; NURSE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING THEORY; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHILOSOPHY; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ALTRUISM; COMMUNICATION; EMPATHY; ETHICS, NURSING; HUMANS; LOVE; MORALS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSES; NURSING THEORY; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHILOSOPHY, NURSING; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 0037361433     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: 14770989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0969733003ne588oa     Document Type: Review

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