title: [Nursing care: an ethical act].
abstract: Care means taking care, paying extreme attention to others in vulnerable situations, "helping and not hurting". Admitting that ethical care exists would require recognizing that there are also treatments which are not ethical. However, care can only be ethical.
authors.affiliation: Direction des soins, centre hospitalier Théophile-Roussel, 1, Rue Philippe-Mithouard - BP 71, 78363 Montesson, France. Electronic address: florencegruat@wanadoo.fr.
authors.forename: Florence
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gruat
mesh_terms: D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D009014:Morals; D009732:Nursing Care; D009736:Nursing Process
keywords: care; caregiver; dilemma; dilemme; ethics; moral; morale; soignant; soin; éthique