Nursing ethics and medical ethics.

Nursing ethics and medical ethics.

Defining nursing ethics apart from medical ethics.

A dean of a major nursing school recently said. ., "We're not interested in medical ethics; there is virtually nothing there that is pertinent to nursing. Nursing has its own issues, problems, and principles, and they're quite different from, and often opposed to, those of medicine." She might well have gone on to point out that nursing also has its established codes of ethics and doesn't need ...

Confidentiality and the ethics of medical ethics.

In this paper we consider the use of cases in medical ethics research and teaching. To date, there has been little discussion about the consent or confidentiality requirements that ought to govern the use of cases in these areas. This is in marked contrast to the requirements for consent to publish cases in clinical journals, or to use personal information in research. There are a number of rea...

Medical Ethics

IT is customary at the beginning of this address to refer to the changes which have taken place in the Staff of the Hospital during the year which has elapsed since the last Annual Oration. WVe have first to record with regret the death of a former member of our Dental Staff, Mr. WVilliam Muirhead Hunter, which took place on 26th MIay of tllis Nyear. Mr. Hunter was a native of Stranraer who qua...

Medical ethics.

The relevance of medical ethics to daily practice should be obvious to all doctors, but the relationship between 'ethics and practice' raises many complex moral issues. 'Medical ethics is not a new subject, but a vital aspect of all medical practice, the implications of which must be made explicit throughout medical education'.' The key word is 'explicit', because morality is a serious and abst...