title: Integrating nursing theory and ethics.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Integrating nursing theory and ethics
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To delineate: (a) ethical dimensions of nursing, (b) a moral view of persons, and (c) caring as a central value for nurses
  
  
  METHODS
  Existential philosophy
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Special ethical theories are needed for nursing.
authors.forename: B W
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Duldt
mesh_terms: D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D005086:Existentialism; D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D009742:Nursing Theory; D010344:Patient Advocacy