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(2004) Handbook of bioethics, Dordrecht, Springer.
Nursing ethics in the 21st century will continue to be concerned with describing and communicating the characteristics of the "good" nurse, and describing nurses' ethical practices. However, there is a growing concern that what constitutes nurses' ethical practices is changing as patients are experiencing, by virtue of reduced reimbursements for health care services, limited time to be in a nurse-patient relationship and to receive nursing care services. Nurses' ethical practices have always been centered on the nurse-patient relationship and if the opportunity for that relationship changes, then what constitutes ethical practice may change, as well. Nursing ethics in the 21st century must be concerned with defining and describing nurses' ethical practices, raising questions about what such practice requires, and the issues that nurses confront in their advocacy roles with patients. The continued and accurate identification of ethical issues that nurses experience, how nurses handle ethical issues, and the resources nurses need to practice ethically will contribute to this effort. The "good" nurse of the 21st century will be a composite ideal derived from new conceptualizations of nursing practice and nurses' ethical practice, and shaped by empirical evidence about the ethical reality of nurses' practices.
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Fry, S. T. (2004)., Nursing ethics, in G. Khushf (ed.), Handbook of bioethics, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 489-505.
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