[Know well in order to do well].
Health care professionals should have comprehensive training, especially in the humanitarian aspects of care. This is essential to enable them to correctly resolve ethical conflicts that arise in professional practice. Starting from this premise, the article discusses some representative situations nurses encounter daily in their contacts with patients. An examination is made of the ethical aspects of the following: ordinary nursing activities; standards with regard to hospital visits by family members; administration of analgesics; schedules for feeding, drug administration, and the like; clinical research; professional secrecy; free professional practice; and death with dignity.
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Pontificia Universidad Católica, Facultad de la Escuela de Enfermería, Santiago, Chile.
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D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D012297:Right to Die
Saber bien para hacer bien.