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



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

Contents

Page

Title page                                                                     1

Abstract                                                               2

Declaration and word count                                           3

Acknowledgements                                              4

Table of contents                                                       5

Introduction                                                        8

A note on nomenclature                                             11

A note on definitional difficulties for nursing                            12

Structureandcontentofthesis                                     13

Chapter 1: Moral education, professional virtue and the

Practiceofnursing                                     16

The teaching of ethics to nurses                                       16

Moral guidance                                                  20

The moral education of nurses                                     22

Professional ethics                                                25

Education for the practice of nursing                             26

The nature of virtue                                             28

Harman’s challenge to virtue ethics                                29

Professional virtues                                               32

Particular professional virtues                                       33

Trustworthiness                                                34

Open-mindedness                                          34

Education for professional virtue                                      35

Chapter 2: Human vulnerability                                   37

All people are vulnerable...                                              39

Risks of harm                                                 44

...but some people are more vulnerable than others                    46

Patients as vulnerable people                                          48

Clarke and Driever’s account of patient vulnerability                  50

Patients as more-than-ordinarily vulnerable people                   54

Nurses and protection of clients                                       55

Activities of abuse                                               56

Professional protection of more-than-ordinarily

vulnerable persons                                              57

Nurses are vulnerable too!                                            58

Nurses are exposed to particular occupational hazards            59

Nurses witness the more-than-ordinary vulnerability of

others on a daily basis                                           60

Nurses and human flourishing for patients                            62



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