title: Care: the basis for a nursing ethic?
abstract: This article takes issue with the position in the recent general and cardiovascular nursing literature that care is the foundation for nursing's professional ethic. This literature is critically examined to support the determination that care is necessary but insufficient. Care without cure is incomplete in any health care discipline, including nursing. Any nursing ethic will be inadequate if it does not integrate the care/relationship and cure/justice/individual foundations.
authors.affiliation: University of California, Dumont Transplant Center, Los Angeles, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Omery
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000451:nursing*; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D009742:Nursing Theory