Ethical practice in nursing: Working the in-betweens

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 316-325

  Varcoe, Colleen ^a,c   Doane, Gweneth ^a   Pauly, Bernadette ^a   Rodney, Paddy ^a,b   Storch, Janet L ^a,b   Mahoney, Karen ^b   McPherson, Gladys ^b   Brown, Helen ^a   Starzomski, Rosalie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c LANGARA COLLEGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ethical practice; Ethical theory; Moral agency; Moral identity; Nursing ethics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AWARENESS; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; METHODOLOGY; MORALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; ORGANIZATION; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; STANDARD;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CANADA; DECISION MAKING; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ETHICAL THEORY; ETHICS, NURSING; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MALE; MORAL DEVELOPMENT; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE;

EID: 0842333973     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2003.02892.x     Document Type: Article

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