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The importance of truth-telling in health care

10 January 2006

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This article explores whether deception is ever justifiable in health care. It examines the concepts of truth-telling and deception. Possible reasons for the recent...

Legal and professional aspects of intravenous therapy

13 March 2002

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

The nurse’s role in intravenous therapy can result in professional satisfaction, but also increased professional risk and liability. The author argues that nurses...

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation: nurses and the law

03 October 2007

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This article updates nurses on the laws governing cardiopulmonary resuscitation in relation to patients who have capacity at the time of admission to hospital, and...

Nurse prescribing ethics and medical marketing

23 March 2011

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This article suggests that nurse prescribers require an awareness of key concepts in ethics, such as deontology and utilitarianism to reflect on current debates and...

Speak out or shut up? Accountability and the student nurse

01 July 2004

Paediatric Nursing

General

From the commencement of nurse training, the importance of being accountable and of acting in the patient’s best interests is constantly highlighted and reinforced....

The new Code of Professional Conduct

01 May 2003

Learning Disability Practice

CPD

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has approved a new Code of Professional Conduct (NMC 2002a). This article discusses the main elements of the new code,...

The new Code of Professional Conduct

19 February 2003

Nursing Standard

CPD

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has approved a new Code of Professional Conduct (NMC 2002a). This article discusses the main elements of the new code,...

An introduction to ethics in nursing

18 April 2007

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Ethics is concerned with ‘right and wrong’, although agreeing what is ‘right’ can be challenging. An understanding of ethics is essential to the delivery of skilled...

Ethics of abortion: the arguments for and against

23 May 2007

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

In England, Scotland and Wales legislation has facilitated the process of procuring an abortion to the point at which, in 2007, it appears to have been effectively...

Therapeutic restraint of children: it must always be justified

01 November 2002

Paediatric Nursing

Clinical

Restraining children during nursing and medical procedures has been an accepted practice in nursing in the past. Nurses may justify such practices on the premise...