Chapter 5
Ethical Issues in Clinical Practice
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Objectives of ethics and principles used in clinical practice
- Ethical issues and value-based practice
- Ethical and legal issues in clinical practice
- Sources of ethics in nursing
- Theoretical foundation of nursing practice
- Implications of strategies used in nursing practice
- Accountability in nursing practice
- Ethical tension in nursing practice
5.1 INTRODUCTION
In real life, it is not possible to separate ethical behaviour from all other behaviours. Almost everything we do can be judged as a moral action by some group of persons. It is because ethical behaviour is important but not easily understood. Even when we are young, we begin to learn what is right and what is wrong. We ...
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