title: Understanding ethics in nursing practice.
abstract: Ethics has traditionally been viewed as an abstract subject confined to the ivory towers of academia. This article challenges that view and describes how ethics can offer nurses a framework for analysing difficult situations at the interface of practice.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kendrick
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D026686:Beneficence; D028663:Ethical Theory; D004989:Ethics; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009014:Morals