Patient advocacy and professional associations: Individual and collective responsibilities

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 296-304

  Welchman, Jennifer ^a   Griener, Glenn G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Advocacy; Nursing ethics; Professional ethics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSING; PATIENT CARE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RESPONSIBILITY;

AMERICAN NURSES ASSOCIATION; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; CANADIAN NURSES ASSOCIATION; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH;

ETHICS, NURSING; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONAL PRACTICE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; ONTARIO; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PRISONERS; PRISONS; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIETIES, NURSING;

EID: 17844397963     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0969733005ne791oa     Document Type: Article

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