Sunday, January 3, 2010

Modern bioethics, from nursing to atheism

Modern bioethics is such a powerful and significant thing. We cannot be health care providers, or receivers without consideration for bioethics. Today's ethical dilemmas in health care are unique as people are living longer, access to care is more readily available, and interventions are saving lives for people who before would have passed.

Nursing is a new beast. Before it was the execution of physicians orders, now it has morphed into an independent science and pattern of thought. Nursing research as emerged as cutting edge in medical science, and is now integrated with philosophy as much as science. As health care has emerged from modernism and postmodernism, a new era in health care is upon us.

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