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Defining ethics in nursing practice

15 January 1992

Nursing Standard

Clinical ethics

The quantitative nature of medical research differs from the qualitative nature of nursing research. Similar discrepancies can be noted in the way the professions...

Consent to surgery: the role of the nurse

24 May 1995

Nursing Standard

Clinical nursing ethics

Consent to surgery is a legal arrangement, based on the idea of a contract between two equal partners: the patient and the doctor. However, when patients sign a...

Consent to research: the role of the nurse

31 May 1995

Nursing Standard

Clinical nursing ethics

Modem views about consent to medical research were clearly stated in 1947 (1). The Nuremberg Code, written mainly by lawyers after the trials of Nazi doctors, opens...

Children's consent to surgery

01 December 1991

Paediatric Nursing

Ethics

According to the newly published Department of Health guidance on the welfare of children and young people in hospital (1) 'The consent of the child and the parent...

The rise and fall of children’s consent to surgery

01 March 2000

Paediatric Nursing

Clinical children’s rights

In England and Wales, people aged over 16 years old can give valid consent to treatment according to the Family Law Reform Act 1969 s8. The consent of people under...

A friend at hand

04 March 1989

Nursing Standard

Cancer support groups

When people first realise that they have cancer, apart from being shocked and frightened, they often feel overwhelmed by loneliness.

Can very young children share in their diabetes care? Ruby’s story

01 December 2004

Paediatric Nursing

Clinical

When do children with a serious medical condition begin to be old enough to understand, and consent to their treatment? Katy Sutcliffe describes her daughter Ruby’s...

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