title: [Encouragement and training of ethical competence in geriatric nursing. A pre-condition of high quality in professional caring process].
abstract: The article makes a case for the necessity of more intensive training in the ethics of geriatric care. It confronts the bias against too much ethical behaviour in daily practice, while also arguing for the liberating and enriching aspects of giving ethical care to the aged. Based on a differentiation between morals and ethics, the essay recognizes the endeavors to achieve moral behaviour in geriatric care, but questions whether in every case the caregivers have sufficient ethical core competence to determine either the appropriateness or the righteousness of their moral actions. The essay discusses what should be understood under "ethical competence" and how ethical competence can be acquired and advanced by schooling.
authors.affiliation: EthikCollegs für Wirtschafts-und Unternehmensethik. ulf.dettmann@t-online.de
authors.forename: Ulf
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Dettmann
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003479:Curriculum; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000941:ethics*; D004993:Ethics, Nursing / Q000193:education*; D005851:Geriatric Nursing / Q000193:education* / Q000941:ethics*; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D009014:Morals; D009042:Motivation; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics*