{"id":10249,"date":"2020-08-22T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10249"},"modified":"2020-08-27T09:16:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T16:16:42","slug":"freedom-of-conscience-and-nursing-in-alberta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10249","title":{"rendered":"Freedom of conscience and nursing in Alberta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sean Murphy*<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Introduction<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Nursing has often been described as a “caring profession.” For historical reasons associated with the development of nursing, it appears that most nursing guidance documents use the terms “care” or “nursing care” with respect to all nurse-patient interactions, including interventions or treatments ordered by attending physicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This puts objecting nurses at a rhetorical disadvantage. Objections are made to treatments or interventions, not to caring. However, in a nursing context this is more readily perceived or characterized as “refusing to care.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The failure to distinguish between “care” and “treatment” can introduce uncertainty into guidance about conscientious objection, which, for example, may insist that an objecting nurse continue to provide “care” for a patient until relieved, without specifying that the care does not include the treatment or intervention to which the nurse objects…[Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sean Murphy* Introduction Nursing has often been described as a “caring profession.” For historical reasons associated with the development of nursing, it appears that most nursing guidance documents use the terms “care” or “nursing care” with respect to all nurse-patient interactions, including interventions or treatments ordered by attending physicians. 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