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Article: Dealing with ethical dilemmas: nurses regularly face ethical challenges in their practice. Does their undergraduate education prepare them well enough for such challenges? One nurse educator thinks not.
- Article from:
- Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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Adolescence and adulthood are elastic concepts, judging by the inconsistency around when a person of a certain age can do what. You can give medical consent when you're 16, but you can't vote. You can be charged with murder under the Crimes Act when you're 14, but you can't get married without your parents' consent. You're deemed able to give sexual consent at 16, but you can't legally buy alcohol.
With such confusion, it is little wonder nurses caring for adolescents can face many ethical dilemmas related to that care. And it is these ethical dilemmas that intrigue and challenge paediatric nurse and now nurse educator Porcelina Spring. She is one of the ...