Engagement in contemporary practice: a relational ethics perspective

Texto & Contexto - Enfermagem

Wendy Austin¹ 

[1] ,University of Alberta Faculty of Nursing Dossetor Health Ethics CentreEdmonton Alberta ,Canada

关键词: Nursing ethics;    Professional practice;    Patient rights;    Ética de enfermagem;    Prática profissional;    Direitos do paciente;    Ética de enfermería;    Práctica profesional;    Derechos del paciente;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0104-07072006000500015

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

The challenges and constraints of meaningful engagement with patients are discussed from a standpoint of relational ethics. If openness to others and to their situation is the beginning of ethics, as is argued by philosophers whose work informs relational ethics, then in health care we must address that openness (or its lack) as it is lived by individual health professionals within the immediacy and complexity of their practice. If, as has been also argued, disengagement is the source of maleficence within healthcare systems, addressing constraints to engagement becomes particularly urgent.

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