Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 77 No. 3, 2007.
Original scientific paper
Identity, Profession and Ethics of Nursing
Tonči Matulić
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The author questions some general and fundamental, that is, theoretical aspects of nursing. The concept of the article is presented in three main sections. The first analyses the idea of sisterhood in the light of the question of identity and in the context of society in general and particularly with health. The second section immediately relates to the first because the author analyses the sense and meaning of sisterhood in the light of autonomous professions and/or authentic calling, vocation. Nursing as an autonomous profession is more recent however its history witnesses in favour of an authentic calling, i.e. charismatic call sui genris to care for the ill, a fact that creates the actual meaning of sisterhood. The third section deals in detail with the aspect of the ethics of nursing. The author attempts to determine the value substance of nursing with the aim of defining basic ethics of nursing. That substance value is researched in the medical meaning and health care. Even though the concept of medical care is manifold and multi-dimensional, the author supports integration of all value aspects of the various meanings of medical care and one complete whole as a real and unquestionable value based on the professional ethics of nursing. Therefore, nursing care of the ill vitally articulates the professional ethics of nursing.
Keywords
nursing; medicine; patient; identity; profession; vocation; care; cure; healing; nursing ethics
Hrčak ID:
22551
URI
Publication date:
12.12.2007.
Visits: 17.204 *