Nursing Care - Ethics
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Ethical considerations in patient and family education: using the symphonological approach.

29 Jun 2009 Most individuals view ethics in healthcare as reserved only for dramatic situations such as withdrawing life support. However, almost everyday, routine decisions in healthcare involve ethics. Providing patient education in an effective manner ... Read more...

Facilitated ethics conversations: a novel program for managing moral distress in bedside nursing staff.

30 Dec 2008 Moral distress is a prominent problem for bedside nurses, and workable solutions for managing the toll it takes are needed. We created a unit-based ethics conversations program in response to nurses' need to find ways to deal with their moral ... Read more...

The influence of conscience in nursing.

30 Dec 2008 The influence of conscience on nurses in terms of guilt has frequently been described but its impact on care has received less attention. The aim of this study was to describe nurses' conceptions of the influence of conscience on the provision of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Nursing Care - Ethics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Ethical considerations in patient and family education: using the symphonological approach. 29 Jun 2009
• Facilitated ethics conversations: a novel program for managing moral distress in bedside nursing staff. 30 Dec 2008
• Case study: dying with a stage IV pressure ulcer. 30 Dec 2008
• ["The code involves saving one's life"] 30 Dec 2008
• The influence of conscience in nursing. 30 Dec 2008
• The ethics of time: care for your patient or nurse your charts. 20 Oct 2008
• Making ethical choices: Weighing obligations and virtues. 29 Sep 2008
• Clinical wisdom: the essential foundation of "good" nursing care. 29 Jun 2008
• What is client abandonment? 30 May 2008
• Duty of care and political expectations. Part 4: standards as a political promise. 29 Apr 2008
• Achieving care and social justice for people with dementia. 29 Apr 2008
• Time for ethics. 28 Feb 2008
• Healthcare law, ethics, and regulation. 30 Dec 2007
• What's our philosophy? 30 Dec 2007
• On different types of dignity in nursing care: a critique of Nordenfelt. 30 Dec 2007
• Commentary on NANN Position Statement 3015. NICU Nurse Involvement in Ethical Decisions (Treatment of Critically Ill Newborns). 29 Sep 2007
• NANN Position Statement 3015. NICU Nurse Involvement in Ethical Decisions (Treatment of Critically Ill Newborns). 29 Sep 2007
• [Humanization in nursing care: acting with respect in a school hospital] 30 Aug 2007
• Placebos: the nurse and the iron pills. 30 May 2007
• The 'little extra' that alleviates suffering. 29 Apr 2007

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Technical information about 'Nursing Care'

Definition: Care given to patients by nursing service personnel.

Descriptor UI: D009732

Alternative terms: Nursing Care; Care, Nursing; Management, Nursing Care; Nursing Care Management;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; psychology;

Tree Number: E02.760.611; N02.421.533; N02.421.585.611;

History Note: 66

Technical Notes: GEN & for patients only: NURSING is for the nursing profession; /legislation & jurisprudence = LEGISLATION, NURSING or NURSING (IM) + JURISPRUDENCE (IM); prefer /nursing: Manual 19.7+, 19.8.48; DF: NURS CARE