Autonomy in nursing is the ability of nurses to understand their patient's right to medical information and care while independently making decisions without consulting the healthcare provider.

Nursing issues have been in the news in the last week and not all of them have been good. First, AMN Healthcare released a survey that found nearly half of the nurses who responded want to make a ...

Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 35, No. 11 (November 2009), pp. 672-677 (6 pages) Background: The increasing number of elderly people in nursing homes with failing competence to give consent ...

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The second half of the 19th century was a period fraught with changes in the clinical world in Britain. It saw the emergence of medicine as a publicly recognised profession following the opening of a ...