title: Ethical issues in informed consent and ECT.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Ethical concerns of nurses involved with electroconvulsive therapy.
  
  
  METHODS
  The principles of autonomy and beneficence are explored in light of a client situation.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To equip psychiatric nurses with the knowledge needed to make ethical decisions.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Greater emphasis must be placed on ethical principles that guide the practice of psychiatric nursing.
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Kashka
authors.forename: P K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Keyser
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004565:Electroconvulsive Therapy; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing