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An evolving transformation in nursing ethics is examined in terms of basic metaphors of the nurse's role and its norms and virtues. Early of nursing ethics portrayed nursing as military service in the against disease, associated with the virtue of loyalty and with the of obedience and the maintenance of patient confidence in physicians as figures. During the past decade, a metaphor of the nurse as of patients' rights has largely replaced the older image. The author this change while cautioning that attention should be given to the meaning of advocacy, revising state laws to allow for expanded roles, educating patients to accept the nurse as advocate, teaching to cope with controversy, and identifying a legitimate place for to one's associates. (KIE abstract)
Gerald R. Winslow (Fri,) studied this question.