title: Teaching nurses about torture.
abstract: Nursing educators realize the need to teach their students about ethics and about their future confrontations with torture. The question however is how? Differences abound on the methods. Below is a thought-provoking approach taken by Christiane Dind, derived from her increasing awareness of the phenomenon of torture as a member of Amnesty International's Health Professional Group and from her personal soul-searching into why she, as a nurse, could tolerate and not question the daily routine "torture" situations in her professional setting.
authors.affiliation: Service Education CHUV (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois), Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dind
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D004506:Education, Nursing; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D012649:Self Concept; D014104:Torture; D014754:Violence