title: Nursing ethics in an era of globalization.
abstract: We live in an era of globalization in which our essential interdependence is increasingly revealed. Transportation and communication technology plus worldwide health, environmental, and security risks and a world economy driven by transnational corporations are connecting us in a new kind of way. Incredible advances in biotechnology, the pressing demands of equity and justice in resource allocation, and the need for a universal perspective in health ethics are some of the issues challenging our moral imagination in significant ways. Nurses need to ask themselves: What changes for nursing ethics when the global-not the local-becomes the dominant frame of reference?
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Austin
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D004782:Environmental Health / Q000639:trends; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D014943:Global Health; D015276:Health Care Rationing / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D020380:Needs Assessment; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D012637:Security Measures / Q000639:trends; D012922:Social Change; D012935:Social Justice; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical / Q000639:trends; D014186:Transportation