Teaching nurses about torture

Nursing educators realize the need to teach their students about ethics and about their future confrontations with torture. The question however is how? Differences abound on the methods. Below is a thought-provoking approach taken by Christiane Dind, derived from her increasing awareness of the phenomenon of torture as a member of Amnesty International's Health Professional Group and from her personal soul-searching into why she, as a nurse, could tolerate and not question the daily routine "torture" situations in her professional setting.