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The Traditional Nurse, Writing By Lisa H. Newton

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In the hospital patient and the health professional that patients have a certain specific right and must be treated as a person with dignity. They are neither mere objects to be manipulated by a professional nor subservient individual who has waived their right simple by becoming hospital patient. In Confucius ' teachings, ritual encompassed both moral practices, respect and traditional values. Confucius taught that there were mutual obligations arising between members of social relationships, for example, as between Husband and Wife, Parents and Children, Older Brother and Younger Brother, and so on. From the reads, Lisa’s articles and confess it seems both theories describes the values and morals and the relationship of humanity. However, in the article in defense of the traditional nurse, writing by Lisa H. Newton, she shows that nurse should be fully traditional become a nurturing synthetic mother of the patient. The roles and responsibility of a nurse are that most nurses face moral problems similar to these faces by the physician as well as a moral problem uniquely related to their professional role thus nurse must sometimes choose between doing what they believe will promote patients well-being and the respecting the patient ’ self-determination. Lisa explained the role as a role, is a “norm-governed patterns of action that undertaken in accordance with the social expectations” (Lisa page 690). Thus, the ability to serve and work according to the

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