[Questions of ethics in nursing: infants nutrition at the intensive neonatal care unit--nursing between care and autonomy].
As comparatively new field of applied ethics, nursing ethics aims at drawing attention to ethical issues in nursing and at reflecting these issues. With a case study, the potential problems comprised in nursing procedures in the nutrition of premature new-borns will be demonstrated. Questions of patient autonomy and care, which are relevant also to other instances of nursing, will be discussed in relation to this concrete case. The article at hand contributes to a definition of what issues nursing ethics addresses.
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Interfakultäres Zentrum für Ethik in den Wissenschaften, Universität Tübingen. monika.bobbert@uni-tuebingen.de
D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007224:Infant Care; D007227:Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D007235:Infant, Premature, Diseases / Q000451:nursing; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal / Q000592:standards*; D017283:Neonatal Nursing