Essay - Nursing Teaching Ethics in Nursing Dinc, L. 'Teaching Ethics in...

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Teaching Ethics in Nursing

Dinc, L. "Teaching Ethics in Nurs*****g." Nursing Ethics. 9.3 (May 2002): 259-268.

***** education attempts to provide nurses with a broad-based framework of knowledge to cope ***** difficult medical situations. However, it has been increasingly acknowledged that nurses must also be prepared ***** cope with the ethical challenges of their pr*****ession. To determine how feasible this can be in an academic setting, a qu*****litative and quantitative survey of a cl*****ss of Turkish nursing students was conducted, to assess student feelings about a course they had experienced on the subject of ***** ethics. The researchers found ***** the *****s said that ***** class discussion of ***** principles ***** particularly useful, although the legal teachings of ***** course were somewhat lacking.

This article *****s an interesting example of the way that ethical education of nurses in a foreign country is conducted. It demonstr*****tes how ***** are universally curious about ***** ***** of ethics, ***** exhibit a desire to gain a securer foothold in the subject, *****d understand how it relates to their professional studies. ***** ***** may have been more engag*****g in terms of its writing style, and more informative, if it did not just report the study, but also recorded some personal comments from ***** students, and reviewed ***** of the spec*****ic ethical and moral problems scenarios covered in the class. Still, it affirms ***** ***** amongst nursing students for more in-depth ***** education classes devoted ***** *****.

Private Sitters Fulfill Patients' Needs

Traf*****d, Abigail. "Private Sitters Fulfill Patients' Needs." Los Angeles Times. 15 Jan 2001: S8.

*****, the families ***** patients in hospitals are hiring private nurses to provide the type of comprehensive nursing care ***** ***** *****not *****. Although ***** were once considered the guardians and *****takers of patients, ********** are increasingly overburdened, ***** what was ***** basic care is now considered a luxury. Hospitals sometimes d*****courage the use ***** outside sitters, fearing liability and conflicts ***** ***** staff, ***** patients' families disagree. They fear their loved ones will not get quality care for their patients without private assistance.

It is saddening to ********** that as hospital stays grow more expensive, patients are getting less care and families must resort to the ***** sector and pay still ***** money to feel ***** though ********** loved ***** are being treated competently. The ***** are rife, legally in terms of ***** and *****ly ***** terms of nursing conflicts over patient treatment. There is also the ethical issue that the poor are ***** less decent ***** than the rich, because poor families cannot provide private nurses. Clearly, ***** ***** nurses or assistants is not the solution to an overburdened medical system, but families will continue ***** do so to protect their loved ones until a better solution ***** achieved by policy makers.

***** Rehabilitation

*****, Anne, Rodger C. Fielder & Kenneth J. Ottenbacher. Stroke. 37 (Jun

2006):1477-1482.

Rehabilitation after a stroke is a critical part ***** the healing process. The article ***** to assess differences in outcomes