The metaphor of nurse as guest with ethical implications for nursing and healthcare.
Current healthcare advertising and customer relations terminology acknowledge that healthcare providers, including nurses, are to act as hosts for persons who enter into healthcare agencies and institutions. Indeed, much has been written aligning nursing and other healthcare services with consumer-oriented roles of the hospitality service industry commonly associated with hotels and restaurants. From a human becoming perspective, this article discusses possible ethical, administrative, and practice implications of nurses acting as guests entering into the lives of those we serve.
Milton
Constance L
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California Baptist University, Riverside, CA 92504, USA. constancemilton@yahoo.com
D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D004506:Education, Nursing; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009732:Nursing Care; D009742:Nursing Theory