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Nursing Ethics

Ethics in Nursing


Overview

According to Aiken (2004) “Ethics is the discipline that deals with rightness and wrongness of actions”. The goal is similar to that of the legal system except that in most cases there is no system of enforcement or ethical penalties. “General ethics is the consideration of the morality of human acts in general”. (Fitzpatrick 2002)
In nursing, ethical issues arise daily. There are issues such as death, dying, birth, abortion, genetics, quality of life, and general human rights. The legal system and ethical system overlap in most situations. Every patient contact can produce a legal or ethical situation.
Ethics is an area that changes with time. As our earth continues to evolve new ethical issues arise constantly. Now not only is there the ethical areas we have always dealt with there is now also environmental ethics which is reaching the health care field.
Environmental ethics is the discipline that studies......


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