Autonomy, hospitality, and nursing care
This essay argues that the virtues and skills of nursing care establish a setting for hospitality, reciprocity, and the cultivation of a patient's moral agency. Nursing care is able to provide such a context because it offers a sustained caring presence to the patient. Hospitality is not a phil...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[1996]
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| In: |
Journal of religion and health
Year: 1996, Volume: 35, Issue: 4, Pages: 283-294 |
| Further subjects: | B
Nurse Care
B Personal Connection B Medical Event B Medical Care B Moral Agency |
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| Summary: | This essay argues that the virtues and skills of nursing care establish a setting for hospitality, reciprocity, and the cultivation of a patient's moral agency. Nursing care is able to provide such a context because it offers a sustained caring presence to the patient. Hospitality is not a philosophical concept so much as a description of how practices of medical care are performed. Nursing care opens practitioners to personal connections with the patient and family, to non-medical histories, to a patient's own description of medical events, and to matters of the spirit. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6571 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/BF02354921 |