title: Ethics in action. A competent, elderly Chinese woman who needs immediate treatment says she can't give consent because she must wait for her family to arrive to give approval.
authors: Center for Health Policy and Ethics, Creighton University, Omaha, USA.
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Haddad
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease / Q000451:nursing; D000368:Aged; D002681:China / Q000208:ethnology; D003144:Communication Barriers; D003469:Culture; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D016746:Transcultural Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States