title: Culture and ethics: a tool for analysing the effects of biases on the nurse-patient relationship.
abstract: For most nurses world-wide, activities are centred around working directly with patients and so the nurse-patient relationship is of the greatest importance. Ethnocentrism on the part of the health care community has led to misdiagnosis, mistreatment and undertreatment of culturally diverse individuals world-wide. This author discusses a tool, Greipp's Model of Ethical Decision-Making, which can be used to assist nurses in analysing the effects of culture, beliefs and diversity upon the caregiver and care recipient within an ethical framework.
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Greipp
mesh_terms: D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D003657:Decision Making; D026689:Ethical Analysis; D028663:Ethical Theory; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D011287:Prejudice; D012945:Social Values