Gastmans C
Center for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
Nurs Ethics. 1999 May;6(3):214-23. doi: 10.1177/096973309900600304.
The concept of care can be explained in various ways, and it can present a different meaning to each person. Nurses are increasingly aware that good nursing care consists of 'more' than the competent performance of a number of caring activities. For many nurses it is less clear what this 'more' means and what importance it has in nursing. This article will develop a view concerning care considered as a moral attitude. It is argued that care can be considered as a foundational normative concept in the ethics of the nursing profession. The aim is to clarify that nurses do not derive their specific caring identity just from the set of tasks that they perform but also from the way in which they commit themselves to the caring process.
护理的概念可以用多种方式来解释，而且对每个人来说可能都有不同的含义。护士们越来越意识到，优质的护理不仅仅是熟练完成一系列护理活动。对许多护士来说，这个“更多”意味着什么以及它在护理中具有什么重要性，却不太清楚。本文将阐述一种把护理视为一种道德态度的观点。有人认为，护理可以被视为护理专业伦理中的一个基本规范性概念。目的是阐明护士并非仅仅从他们执行的一系列任务中获得其特定的护理身份，还源于他们致力于护理过程的方式。
