Authors

Lydia Feito Grande

Position

Doctora en Filosofía. Máster en Bioética. Profesora de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Profesora de Bioética del Título Superior en Ciencias de la Salud: Enfermería. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Contact address

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales.

Contact email: lydia.feito@urjc.es

Abstract

Nursing, as Medicine, is a moral practice, which means that it incorporates an attitude or ethical behaviour (excellent care), based on a moral virtue (solidarity and concern for the well being of mankind), exercised in accordance with ethical patterns (technical and moral correction) and which requires responsibility.
Consequently, it is an exciting career, in which above all, a communication interrelationship occurs between people, requiring excellence in both technical and human manners. To be able to articulate nursing ethics, one must know what ethics means and what its characteristics are, essential knowledge to be able to understand that ethics should not be just a good compilation of good behaviour norms but a framework from where to analyse ethical problems and, above all, from where to take reasoned and prudent decisions. The contributions of Carol Gilligan are accepted by numerous authors dedicated to the study of nursing ethics as an interpretation key of what professional care is supposed to be. The ideas expressed in this paper have been developed more widely by the author of this paper in her book "Ética profesional de la enfermería. Filosofía de la enfermería como ética del cuidado" (Professional Ethics in Nursing. Nursing Philosophy as Ethics of Care.

Keywords:

Ethics of Care; nursing ethics; moral value; intrinsic well beingethical care

Versión en Español

Título:

La Ética del Cuidado como modelo de la ética enfermera