Philosophical Perspectives on Trustworthiness and Open-mindedness as Professional Virtues for the Practice of Nursing: Implications for he Moral Education of Nurses



indeed a virtue in its own right. While there is yet more to be said about this matter my
tentative conclusion is that trustworthiness might well be a virtue especially given that
trustworthiness has such a prominent place in promoting human flourishing. In any
case, there is no doubt that we can accept trustworthiness as a desirable professional
virtue for it should be clear from the foregoing discussion that if nurses are serious
about caring for
more-than-ordinarily vulnerable persons as part of a commitment to
human flourishing then being trustworthy (from the perspective of patients) is a
necessary condition of practice.

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