Nursing Ethics: Therapeutic Caring Presence

by Anne H. Bishop and John R. Scudder Jr.

The author argues that because the profession of nursing consists of practical ways of fostering the well-being of persons, ethical considerations must arise out of the unique nature of this work. This book focuses on the "moral sense of nursing" by developing nursing ethics as it is rooted in everyday practice rather than the application of philosophical ethics.This implies a "therapeutic ethic" that is founded in caring: two of the four primary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 053454245X
• ISBN13: 9780534542450
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 152 Pages