[Ethics and trust].
Trust is a philosophical concept whose meaning has been considerably distorted through everyday usage. When applied to the field of nursing practice, trust can be considered as an ethical value whereby competency is one of the main professional requirements with which the medical staff as a whole has to comply.
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D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D035502:Trust