Defining ethics in nursing practice
- 15 January 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by RCNi in Nursing Standard
- Vol. 6 (17) , 33-35
- https://doi.org/10.7748/ns.6.17.33.s42
Abstract
The quantitative nature of medical research differs from the qualitative nature of nursing research. Similar discrepancies can be noted in the way the professions approach ethical issues: medicine tends to adopt a reductionist, detached stance, while nursing opts for an expansionist, attached view of patient problems. Priscilla Alderson explores the issues involved in defining nursing ethics, and asks if what is required is an overall health ethic which reflects the qualities of all the professionsKeywords
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