title: A view from somewhere: the presence and function of religious commitment in nursing practice.
abstract: As western society becomes increasingly pluralistic, nurses are confronted by fundamental controversies, such as those moral, philosophical or religious in nature. One strategy to deal with such pluralism is to dismiss a nurse's fundamental moral, philosophical or religious commitments as unprofessional bias. In this paper, however, I would like to analyse the presence and function of religious commitment, in particular to see if it could have a justified and relevant function in nursing care. This function will be elicited by interpreting nursing care as a practice and applying a certain theory of theorizing, focusing on the function of 'control beliefs', of which professionalism is one particular set.
authors.affiliation: GA Lindeboom Instituut, Centre of Medical Ethics, Ede, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: B S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Cusveller
mesh_terms: D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009742:Nursing Theory; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D011287:Prejudice; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D012067:Religion