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Understanding the ethical issues in infertility nursing practice
Abstract:
Nurses are actively involved in planning and providing nursing care to infertile individuals and couples in a variety of health care settings. Infertility is a health problem with ethical and physical, psychological, and social dimensions. Rather than evaluating the ethical advantages and disadvantages of each reproductive technology, the author suggests that the ethical issues that face nurses in caring for infertile individuals be assessed from the standpoint of possible harm to the individual and family. From this perspective, a lack of accurate information about treatment outcomes appears to be a serious ethical issue and one that nurses can, in part, remedy.
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