Expanding nurses' participation in ethics: An empirical examination of ethical activism and ethical assertiveness

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 15-27

  Dodd, Sarah Jane ^a   Jansson, Bruce S ^b   Brown Saltzman, Katherine ^c   Shirk, Marilyn ^d   Wunch, Karen ^e  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e RANCHO LOS AMIGOS NATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethical decision making; Ethics education; Nursing ethics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSERTIVENESS; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; ETHICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICS; TEACHING; UNITED STATES;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASSERTIVENESS; DATA COLLECTION; ETHICS, NURSING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REGRESSION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEACHING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1842863976     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: 14770989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0969733004ne663oa     Document Type: Article

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