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- Title
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, NURSES, AND ETHICS: WHAT ARE THE LINKS?
- Authors
Silva, Mary Cipriano; Ludwick, Ruth
- Abstract
The article focuses on relationship among domestic violence, nurses and ethics. Less visible is the domestic violence that occurs within the family and often against women. Feminist ethics addresses the gap in general well-being between large numbers of women and men in both industrial and developing countries. The article states that nurses can take guidance from their codes of ethics about their obligations to battle violence. Nurses have an ethical duty to respect the dignity and human rights of other persons and to treat them with compassion regardless of health condition, ethnicity, or life style.
- Subjects
DOMESTIC violence; ETHICS; NURSES; FEMINISM; HUMAN rights; LIFESTYLES
- Publication
Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 2002, Vol 7, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1091-3734
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3912/ojin.vol7no02ethcol01