title: Principles, values, and ethics set the stage for managed care nursing.
abstract: Principles, values, and ethics constitute an ethical system that provides nurses a context in which to make ethical decisions. As the managed care environment generates new ethical issues and intensifies already existing ones, ethical education and decision-making skills become even more critical to nursing professionals, as well as physicians and hospital administrators.
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Moss
mesh_terms: D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D028663:Ethical Theory; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000458:organization & administration*; D028681:Moral Obligations; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory; D018579:Patient Selection; D028662:Principle-Based Ethics; D040841:Resource Allocation; D012941:Social Responsibility; D012945:Social Values; D028722:Virtues; D028761:Withholding Treatment