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Consequences for Straight Thinking in Nursing Ethics
1Professor of Doctoral Programs, School of Nursing, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA, USA.
Abstract:
The concepts of nursing ethics continue to be seen through the lens of medical science and the systematic study of bioethics. The discipline of nursing has chosen through its philosophical educational systems to focus on the systematic study of bioethics as foundational to doctoral, graduate, and advanced practice nursing programs. In choosing to focus outside of the discipline for this straight thinking inquiry, what are the consequences for the discipline as well as to humankind for the lack of discipline-specific inquiry and practice as articulated by the discipline of nursing? This article begins a conversation for the straight thinking priorities that should be considered by the discipline of nursing for the study of nursing ethics.
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