Health Care Ethics

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The paper states that a correct assessment of moral and situational considerations in nursing largely depends on the nurse' own empathy and plays a critical role in minimizing moral conflicts in the handling of both the patient and the patient's family. The author focuses on patients facing serious or terminal illnesses. The paper states that, even under distressing work conditions, the code of ethics has no room for negative personal emotions that may lead to patient distress.

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"Nortvedt, too, puts forth the irrefutable argument that a correct assessment of moral and situational considerations in nursing largely depends on the individual's own empathic, emotionally rooted faculties. Nortvedt based his theory on the basis that an individual's feelings, founded on empathy, plays a critical role in minimizing moral conflicts in the handling of both the patient and the patient's family."

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