scholarly journals Should nursing ethics be distinguished from medical ethics?

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Shamima Parvin Lasker
Keyword(s):  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Nursing Ethics

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bioethics.v2i3.10256Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics 2011;2(3):2

Toward Reclaiming Our Ethical Heritage: Nursing Ethics before Bioethics

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marsha Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Social Ethics ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
Biomedical Ethics ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Nursing Ethics ◽  
The Social

American nursing has an extraordinary body of nursing ethics literature from the 1880s to the mid-1960s. This literature developed prior to the rise of the field of medical ethics (later termed biomedical ethics, then bioethics) in the mid-1960s, and bears little resemblance to its later counterparts. Early nursing ethics was nurse-centric; relationally based; addressed nurses’ ethical comportment in all roles; advanced the social ethics of nursing (especially in response to health disparities); and set forth ethical expectations for the profession as a whole. This first wave of nursing ethics is distinctive and differs significantly from contemporary bioethics, yet it remains grossly under-researched. It offers nurses a wise, comprehensive, generous, and learned ethics that deserves to be reclaimed for today’s nursing practice. This article will offer an author backdrop and an historical review of early nursing ethics literature; consider the nursing profession as a calling; discuss the pivot to bioethics and the Code of Ethics as anomaly.

Medical and Nursing Civil Liability and Ethics in the Provision of Health Services

2021 ◽  
pp. 260-269
Author(s):  
Theophano Papazissi ◽  
Fotios Chatzinikolaou
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Civil Liability ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Nursing Ethics ◽  
Oncological Patients ◽  
Presidential Decree ◽  
Nursing Activity ◽  
Current Code

After 2000, specific legislation on civil liability and ethics of nurses and doctors was introduced, as well as specific acts. For nurses and the nursing profession, since 2001, the Code of Nursing Ethics (NCSD, Presidential Decree 216/2001) has been in force. In 2005, the current Code of Medical Ethics (KID, Law 3418/2005) was passed. Special Law 3305/2005 on the application of assisted reproduction methods was introduced to specify how the methods introduced in the Civil Code were applied as methods of generating kinship among persons under Law 2089/2002 (MAP). The chapter summarizes the main points regarding civil liability of medical and nursing activity with a special focus on oncological patients.

The Role of Caring in a Theory of Nursing Ethics

Hypatia ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara T. Fry
Keyword(s):  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Moral Justification ◽  
Nursing Ethics ◽  
Moral Decision Making ◽  
Moral Point ◽  
Fundamental Value ◽  
Human Caring ◽  
Field Of Inquiry

The development of nursing ethics as a field of inquiry has largely relied on theories of medical ethics that use autonomy, beneficence, and/or justice as foundational ethical principles. Such theories espouse a masculine approach to moral decision “making and ethical analysis. This paper challenges the presumption of medical ethics and its associated system of moral justification as an appropriate model for nursing ethics. It argues that the value foundations of nursing ethics are located within the existential phenomenon of human caring within the nurse/patient relationship instead of in models of patient good or rights-based notions of autonomy as articulated in prominent theories of medical ethics. Models of caring are analyzed and a moral-point-of-view (MPV) theory with caring as a fundamental value is proposed for the development of a theory of nursing ethics. This type of theory is supportive to feminist medical ethics because it focuses on the subscription to, and not merely the acceptance of, a particular view of morality.

To Whom Is the Nurse Accountable?

1980 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-3
Author(s):  
Jane Greenlaw
Keyword(s):  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Nursing Ethics ◽  
Medical Care System ◽  
Legal Ethics ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Ethical System ◽  
Specific Activities ◽  
Care System

Nurses are concerned with doing what is “right” when faced with the complexities of today's medical care system. Doing what is “right” is what ethics is all about. Ethics is a system of moral principles or the recognized rules of conduct. While an ethical system is a general one, specific activities can raise unique issues. Thus, we can talk about nursing ethics, medical ethics, legal ethics, etc. One often finds oneself in dilemmas for which there is no legal solution — that is, there is no clear, legally enforceable duty to do or refrain from doing something, and not everyone agrees or feels that there is a right and wrong solution.

Fry's Concept Of Care In Nursing Ethics

Hypatia ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 174-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard J. Curzer
Keyword(s):  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Nursing Ethics ◽  
Central Concept ◽  
Mode Of Being

Sara T. Fry maintains that care is a central concept for nursing ethics. This requires, among other things, that care is a virtue rather than a mode of being. But if care is a central virtue of ethics and medical ethics then the claim that care is a central concept for nursing ethics is trivial. Otherwise, it is implausible.

Medical and Nursing Civil Liability and Ethics in the Provision of Health Services

2021 ◽  
pp. 365-374
Author(s):  
Theophano Papazissi ◽  
Fotios Chatzinikolaou
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Civil Liability ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Nursing Ethics ◽  
Oncological Patients ◽  
Presidential Decree ◽  
Nursing Activity ◽  
Current Code

After 2000, specific legislation on civil liability and ethics of nurses and doctors was introduced, as well as specific acts. For nurses and the nursing profession, since 2001, the Code of Nursing Ethics (NCSD, Presidential Decree 216/2001) has been in force. In 2005, the current Code of Medical Ethics (KID, Law 3418/2005) was passed. Special Law 3305/2005 on the application of assisted reproduction methods was introduced to specify how the methods introduced in the Civil Code were applied as methods of generating kinship among persons under Law 2089/2002 (MAP). The chapter summarizes the main points regarding civil liability of medical and nursing activity with a special focus on oncological patients.

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