A Blog Refresh: I have been in a holding pattern in my blog for some time. However, I would like to reinstate my blog on ethics in nursing. To begin again, I am posting my first post to set the stage for things to come. Enjoy! Every time we hold a person responsible for what he has done, we acknowledge in effect that a deed which can be judged morally has an intimate and internal connection with the character of the one from whom the deed issued. - John Dewey, 1932/2009, p. 342 In The Moral Self , Dewey (1932/2009) stated: “ Selfhood or character is not a mere means, an external instrument, of attaining certain ends. . . . It is an agency of accomplishing consequences. . . . The self reveals its nature in what it chooses ” (p. 342) . This thought process is applicable to nurses as well. If, as Dewey postulates, ethics is part of a person’s character and therefore a part of one self, perhaps nurses can draw upon these inherent factors...
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