The right to know: the nurse's role in informing patients
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Nursing Times
|August 6, 1994
Abstract:
This paper analyses a situation often found in practice and demonstrates an ethical issue in truth-telling and its effect on nursing practice for patients. The situation identified occurred in a surgical unit, where the author was a night sister.
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