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Using Visual and Narrative Methods to Achieve Fair Process in Clinical Care
Published on: February 16, 2011
A critical intersection: human rights, public health nursing, and nursing ethics
Cheryl E Easley1, Carol Easley Allen
1College of Health and Social Welfare, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, Alaska 99508, USA. ceasley@uaa.alaska.edu
Abstract:
Public health nurses must make moral decisions regarding practice in complex situations fraught with competing moral claims. While nurses often frame practice decisions within the context of ethical theory, consideration of human rights perspectives is more recent. Basic concepts of nursing and public health ethics and of human rights, in relationship to public health, will be discussed and related to the practice of public health nursing. Intersections of human rights, ethics, and public health nursing practice will be discussed in light of the assertion of health as a human right and described using the issues of HIV/AIDS and genetics/genomics.
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