Hastings Cent Rep. 2016 Sep;46 Suppl 1:S5-8. doi: 10.1002/hast.623.
Nursing and bioethics have a lot in common because they share concerns about life and death, illness and health, the rights of individuals and communities, ethical patient care, health care delivery, and public health. Nurses and bioethicists contribute to ethical practice, ethics scholarship, and health policy-making in a variety of ways. Some nurses have bioethics education or experience, some bioethicists study or collaborate closely with nurses, and some of us proudly identify as both bioethicists and as nurses. Despite certain shared and interwoven aims, bioethicists and nurses often accomplish their goals in dissimilar ways, have diverse educational and training trajectories as well as distinct roles and responsibilities, and are viewed differently within health care organizations. Yet the work of bioethics and nursing can be, and in my view should more often be, synergistic. That synergism may be especially critical in the arena of health policy and ethics. Nurses can bring extraordinary insights and real-world experiences to the policy table but are not always considered essential contributors.
护理和生命伦理学有很多共同之处，因为它们都关注生老病死、疾病与健康、个人和社区的权利、伦理病人护理、医疗保健服务以及公共卫生。护士和生命伦理学家以各种方式为伦理实践、伦理学术研究和卫生政策制定做出贡献。一些护士接受过生命伦理学教育或有相关经验，一些生命伦理学家研究或与护士密切合作，而我们中的一些人则自豪地同时认同自己既是生命伦理学家又是护士。尽管有某些共同和交织的目标，但生命伦理学家和护士通常以不同的方式实现其目标，他们的教育和培训轨迹不同，角色和责任也不同，并且在医疗机构中的地位也不同。然而，生命伦理学和护理工作可以而且在我看来应该更加协同。这种协同作用在卫生政策和伦理领域尤为关键。护士可以为政策制定带来非凡的洞察力和现实经验，但并不总是被视为重要的贡献者。
