Nursing Ethics : A Zen Buddhist Approach

ISBN-13: 9783639127263 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 188 str.

Karen Rich

Opis

Ethics in nursing is grounded in relationships and in the day-to-day practices of nurses confronting the suffering and enhancing the well-being of people across the life span. In spite of a continuing long, rich history of nurses caring for people in both a physical and emotional sense, many people claim that the nursing profession today is in a state of unsatisfactoriness. By using the method of philosophical inquiry and analysis, Dr. Rich explored whether or not Zen Buddhism, specifically engaged Buddhism based on the tradition of Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh, has a value for nursing ethics. Dr. Rich argues that the Zen tools of interbeing, nonself, the Four Noble Truths, the Four Immeasurable Minds, and a model of the Buddhist Sangha can be used by nurses to guide them in deciding what type of nurses they want to be and to advance the ethical nature of nurses'' relationships with their patients and with other nurses. She proposes that nurses can experience joy in knowing that nursing, when viewed in terms of its enlightened nature, already has the characteristics that nurses aspire to develop.

O autorze

Karen Rich holds a PhD in nursing with an emphasis in ethics
from The University of Southern Mississippi, USA. In 2008, she
co-authored the second edition of Nursing Ethics: Across the
Curriculum and Into Practice. Dr. Rich serves on the ethics
committees of two large hospitals in Mississippi and has
numerous publications.