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This article gives an overview of concepts basic to the notion of prevention as it is understood in nursing today. Human being, disease and health are defined. Different examples of the possible role of nurses in primary, secondary and tertiary prevention are proposed.
This paper focuses on selected ethical questions that can arise in caring for the dying. They are: (1) What are the limits of treatment and who decides them? (2) How do we deal with suffering and the alleviation of pain? (3) How does the nurse present her humane self to the dying patient? The framework used to reason through these questions comes from the criteria developed to describe the concept, full life.