Nursing Practice: compassionate deception and the Good Samaritan

This article reviews the literature on deception to illuminate the phenomenon as a background for an appraisal within nursing. It then describes nursing as a practice of caring. The character of the Good Samaritan is recommended as indicative of the virtue of compassion that ought to underpin caring...

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Main Author: Tuckett, Anthony (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 1999
In: Nursing ethics
Year: 1999, Volume: 6, Issue: 5, Pages: 383-389
Further subjects:B Good Samaritan
B Deception
B truth telling
B Virtue
B Compassion
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Summary:This article reviews the literature on deception to illuminate the phenomenon as a background for an appraisal within nursing. It then describes nursing as a practice of caring. The character of the Good Samaritan is recommended as indicative of the virtue of compassion that ought to underpin caring in nursing practice. Finally, the article concludes that a caring nurse, responding virtuously, acts by being compassionate, for a time recognizing the prima facie nature of the rules or principles of truth telling.
ISSN:1477-0989
Contains:Enthalten in: Nursing ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/096973309900600504