Commitment and Responsibility in Nursing: a Faith-based Approach.

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Cusveller, Bart, Agneta Sutton & Donal O'Mathuna, eds. Commitment and Responsibility in Nursing: A Faith-based Approach. Sioux Center, Iowa: Dordt College Press, 2004.

This book represents an open and unabashed delineation of Christian values as they apply to nurses and nursing. The authors, however, admit that Christians do not always possess solutions to conflict and dilemmas. The first part centers on the Christian origins of nursing and on the faith from which traditional nursing values originated. The following part discusses specific relationships involving nurses and patients, nurse colleagues, and other health care professionals. The last three chapters focus on particular problems raised in situations involving terminal care, alternative therapies, and intimacy and...

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