Information Disclosure: the moral experience of nurses in China

While the movement to ensure patient’s rights to information and informed consent spreads throughout the world, patient rights of this kind have yet to be introduced in mainland China. Nonetheless, China is no different from other parts of the world in that nurses are expected to shoulder the respon...

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Main Author: Pang, Mei-che Samantha (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 1998
In: Nursing ethics
Year: 1998, Volume: 5, Issue: 4, Pages: 347-361
Further subjects:B Chinese culture
B Truth-telling
B Information Disclosure
B Sincerity
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)

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