Ethical conduct and the nurse ethnographer: Consideration of an ethic of care

Journal of Research in Nursing

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 350-361

  Griffiths, Pauline ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contextual ethics; Ethic of care; Ethnography; Informed consent; Participant observation; Research ethics

Indexed keywords

EID: 54349100465     PISSN: 17449871     EISSN: 1744988X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1744987108090299     Document Type: Article

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