title: [Bioethics: a proposal for decision making. Towards a weighed syncretism].
abstract: The professional nursing business bears with it ethical problems related to scientific and technical development, the ethical-cultural plurality in our society and changes in clinical relationships. This situation has generated a crisis in classical decision-making models which has led to a point where we confront a new reality that requires an adequate adjustment not only to technical criteria but, moreover, to moral criteria. The challenge we undertake implies a search for concrete solutions to concrete problems in concrete instances, and what is most important, related to concrete persons. The procedures for decision making which have been proposed up until now should not be viewed as exclusive rather as complementary and enriching ones in the quest to find the best possible solutions; along this line we propose, from a weighed syncretism aspect, a procedure not thought of only for use in great conflicts but rather and mainly, to resolve daily problems.
authors.affiliation: Universidad de Cantabria. zabalaj@unican.es
authors.forename: Jaime
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zabala Blanco
authors.forename: Raquel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Seco García
mesh_terms: D026688:Bioethical Issues; D003657:Decision Making / Q000941:ethics*