title: An ethical framework for operating room infection control.
abstract: The operating room nurse has an ethical obligation to provide patients with safe, effective care during surgical intervention. Most basic to this care is surgical asepsis. Bioethics principles of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice, as well as the professional's character in meeting the responsibilities of competence and accountability, are presented as an ethical framework for surgical infection control.
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authors.lastname: Hubbard
mesh_terms: D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D017053:Infection Control; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009871:Operating Room Nursing