Jurisprudential inquiry model: a must for teaching nursing ethics

How can nursing students learn to utilize ethics, morals, and values in their everyday nursing practice? This article describes an innovative instructional approach, the Jurisprudential Inquiry Model. This model will establish a process of ethical decision-making that can be used in solving ethical dilemmas encountered in professional nursing practice. The Jurisprudential Model provides a developmental framework for the analysis of ethical issues in nursing practice through infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old-age.