Nursing ethics: the role of caring
Taylor, C.
Awhonn's Clinical Issues in Perinatal and Women's Health Nursing 4(4): 552-560
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 1066-3614 PMID: 8220369 Document Number: 420250
This article contrasts two popular approaches to nursing ethics: the principle-based approach and the care perspective. The care perspective is situated within the general schema of ethical theory and described. Its contributions to nursing and clinical ethics are highlighted, as are the challenges it poses to nursing practice, education, and research. The author concludes that the caring perspective provides an orientation to persons that grounds professional relationships and ethics in all of the helping professions. As such, it provides an insufficient basis for establishing a distinct theory of nursing ethics.