Autonomy versus beneficence: An ethical dilemma
Terri Dunbar , Community Staff Nurse, Chalfont Surgery, Lower Earley, Reading
Terri Dunbar explores the moral conflict between respect for autonomy and the desire of the nurse to act in a beneficent manner when self-neglect and treatment refusal figure and disagreement and tension result
Terri Dunbar explores the moral conflict between respect for autonomy and the desire of the nurse to act in a beneficent manner when self-neglect and treatment refusal figure and disagreement and tension result
Primary Health Care.
13, 1, 38-41.
doi: 10.7748/phc2003.02.13.1.38.c410
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