PubMed Health⌕ Search

Biomedical subjects

Constance L Milton

Publications and source records attributed to Constance L Milton.

16 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed2007

Information and human freedom: nursing implications and ethical decision-making in the 21st century.

With globalization and the increasing volume of healthcare information available to people, questions surface as nurses contemplate and envision what role and how our nursing theory-guided discipline ought to be lived with colleagues of other disciplines, each other, and those we serve in the 21(st) century. This column begins a path of ethical exploration and possible implications for the opportunities and challenges associated with the information age in nursing research, practice, and education. Discussion focuses on the disciplinary responsibilities for information giving and receiving; coming to know, human freedom, and decision-making in the human-universe-health process.

Access to Information↗
PubMed2006

Fables: ways of knowing and understanding meaning in nursing.

Fables are literary short stories intended to convey a moral maxim for some aspect of human living. Within the discipline of nursing, a fable is a medium by which stories and themes of humanly lived phenomena may be viewed in light of a particular philosophical lens of understanding. The fable offers possibilities for instruction through illuminating fictitious characters and offering notions for what a member of a discipline ought to do. In this article, the author shall present a fable and offer an interpretation from a human becoming perspective for what one ought to do in the discipline of nursing.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed2006

Breaking the rules of the game: Ethical implications for nursing practice and education.

Rules in games are fundamental to the ethics of practice. Rules provide a context or space where a game is defined and played. Throughout human life, games may be formalized with written and unwritten rules. Imaginations may be sparked in the creative structuring of new, informal games. Formal and informal rules can serve to provide direction for what may be viewed as decorum and appropriate behavior with professional groups. In this column, the author illuminates possible ethical meanings for rule-making and breaking with implications for nursing practice and education from a nursing theoretical perspective.

Cooperative Behavior↗
PubMed2005

The ethics of respect in nursing.

The term respect is pervasive in biomedical ethical literature and in all disciplines. It is a concept used to connote dignity, reverence, and regard. To demonstrate respect implies actions of doing what is good. When viewed in the context of nursing research, practice, and education, questions abound as to how respect is offered to others. The author of this column examines and offers possible definitions for the term respect and provides possible implications for leadership in nursing from a nursing theoretical perspective.

Education, Nursing↗
PubMed2005

Scholarship in nursing: ethics of a practice doctorate.

The American Association of Colleges of Nursing recently adopted a position statement which gave approval for the development of a doctorate of nursing practice. What are possible ethics related to meaning and scholarship in providing this form of terminal degree in nursing? What are some questions that members of the discipline ought to be thinking about when pondering beginning such programs? When viewed from a nursing theoretical perspective, what are potential implications for initiating this degree? This column shall begin the discussion regarding the ethics and possible meanings for doing what is best for the discipline of nursing.

Education, Nursing, Graduate↗
PubMed2005

Symbols and ethics: integrity and the discipline of nursing.

Symbols give meaning to phenomena coconstituted in the human-universe-health process. There are many common symbols of ethics found in the discipline of nursing. Symbols of ethics may take the form of codes, oaths, pledges, resolutions, or position statements that represent notions of what one ought to do in a discipline or profession. Ethical symbols are intended to guide a particular discipline in practice, research, and education. What is their importance to the discipline of nursing? What are the possible implications of integrity for nursing when viewing the application of ethical symbols from a nursing theoretical perspective?

Ceremonial Behavior↗
PubMed2005

The metaphor of nurse as guest with ethical implications for nursing and healthcare.

Current healthcare advertising and customer relations terminology acknowledge that healthcare providers, including nurses, are to act as hosts for persons who enter into healthcare agencies and institutions. Indeed, much has been written aligning nursing and other healthcare services with consumer-oriented roles of the hospitality service industry commonly associated with hotels and restaurants. From a human becoming perspective, this article discusses possible ethical, administrative, and practice implications of nurses acting as guests entering into the lives of those we serve.

Delivery of Health Care↗
PubMed2004

The ethics of personal integrity in leadership and mentorship: a nursing theoretical perspective.

Mentorship has been rediscovered in the professional nursing literature. It is viewed as an integral relationship to be fostered between members of a discipline for the purpose of developing future nurse leaders. Inherent in the relationship are desired qualities or attributes that are to be taught and practiced by professional nurse leaders for the purpose of developing innovative institutional partnerships between healthcare agencies and schools of nursing. In this column, a unique definition of mentorship will be explicated from the human becoming school of thought. Ethical implications of the concept will be explored.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed2004

Stories: implications for nursing ethics and respect for another.

Stories are narratives cocreated in the human-universe process which reflect authors' priority projects, ideas, and creative artistry. These articulations may be utilized as methods for understanding health and quality of life in the discipline of nursing. Stories are living entities of community that may be used for research, education, and practice. They are vital tools for professionals asking ethical questions about doing what is right in the human-universe-health process. This article shall examine the use of stories and provide notions for further ethical thinking and implications for human regard from a nursing theoretical perspective.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed2004

Ethics content in nursing education: pondering with the possible.

Accrediting bodies of nursing as well as other healthcare organizations require that nursing ethics content be incorporated in programs of study. How does nursing define the termnursing ethics? How is it distinguished or viewed in various levels of higher degree nursing education? What is the role of codes for nursing? These are but a few of the questions pondered in the following article that includes personal correspondence with two distinguished authors, educators, and consultants for biomedical ethics, Dr. Sara T. Fry and Dr. Nancy Berlinger of the Hastings Center.

Accreditation↗
PubMed2003

A graduate curriculum guided by human becoming: journeying with the possible.

Graduate education involves teaching-learning processes and experiences where faculty and students journey with adventure and trepidation all-at-once. In this column, notions regarding graduate education where the educational curriculum is guided by the human becoming school of thought as a conceptual framework are explored. Opportunities and challenges from both faculty and student perspectives are highlighted.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed2003

The American Nurses Association Code of Ethics: a reflection on the ethics of respect and human dignity with nurse as expert.

The American Nurses Association Code of Ethics for Nurses calls for the nurse to practice with compassion and respect for every individual. What are the ethics and challenges of practicing professional nursing with expertise and educating a new generation of nurses while incorporating the interpretive statements into practice? This column differentiates the traditional biomedical views on human dignity and respect while exploring the embedded ethics of respect and self-determination and what it truly means to be an expert of nursing from the theoretical perspective of the human becoming school of thought.

American Nurses' Association↗
PubMed2002

Cocreating anew in public health nursing.

Since the tragic events of 9/11/01, public health nursing is undergoing rapid change with increased public awareness and a need for programs and protocols addressing issues such as bioterrorism, public safety, and continuing healthcare service in community settings. What is the role of professional nursing in these settings during turbulent times? This column focuses on these issues from the lens of the human becoming school of thought with discussion of the embedded ethical opportunities and challenges that require contemplation.

Bioterrorism↗
PubMed2002

Ethical implications for acting faithfully in the nurse-person relationship.

Bearing witness-not bearing witness has been posited as a fundamental rhythm of coexistence. In biomedical ethical writings, the concept of fidelity, or faithfulness, has been used to describe an obligation to act in good faith with such actions as keeping promises or vows, fulfilling agreements, maintaining relationships, and individuals' fulfilling fiduciary responsibilities. In this column, the nursing phenomenon of acting faithfully in the nurse-person relationship shall be defined and explored with practice implications through reflections as viewed from the lens of the nursing theoretical framework of the human becoming school of thought.

Ethics, Nursing↗