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Examines the ethical dilemmas that confronts nurses. Categories of ethical dilemmas; Patients' rights; Physicians' obligations; Relationships among ethical dilemma variables and selected employment and demographic variables.

Presents abstracts of completed research on ethical constructs in the health science arena. 'Ethical Constructs in Clinical Practice: Development of an Instrument,' by Kathleen A. Mahon; 'Empirical and Philosophical Indicators of No-Risk Research,' by Susan R. Gortner; 'Philosophical Implications Drawn from Survey Data on Nursing Ethics,' by Anne J. Davis.

Explores the major dilemmas for clinical nurses in the informed consent process in research protocols. Cognitive and psychological status of patients; Validity of informed consent elements in treatment and research protocols; Perceptions of role boundaries; Factors limiting the principle of autonomy.

Discusses ethical issues in nursing research in the U.S. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' regulations regarding the protection of human research subjects; General requirements for informed consent.

Explores ethical issues in nursing research. Evaluation of the risk-benefit ratio; Nature of risks in field research; Categories of risk in nursing research.

Discusses ethical issues in nursing research, highlighting the creation of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects. Background of the Commission; Duties; Published works of the Commission.

Discusses the functions served by the institutional review board (IRB) in medical research in the United States. Rationale for the establishment of IRV; Activites which fall under the jurisdiction of the IRB; Duty of the IRB to review and make final decisions on all protocols for research involving human subjects.

Discusses several ethical issues in nursing research. Shift in health care ethics; Notion of patient autonomy; Politics of integenerational equity.

Focuses on the code of ethics in international nursing research. Category of normative ethics; Lists of resources for nursing research; Nurses' attitudes on several nursing issues.

Discusses several ethical issues in nursing research. Supply of new knowledge and technology for nursing; Development of general organization and management of health and nursing services; Promotion of development of relevant courses for education of nurses.

Comments on fictional works on death and dying which can extend people's understanding of death and dying. Epistemology in Annie Dillard's book 'Living With Fiction'; Ordinary death of an ordinary man in the short story 'The Death of Ivan Illych,' by Leo Tolstoy; Dying in 'A Reckoning,' by Laura Spelman; Terminal illness in 'The Dance of the Wild Mouse.'

Focuses on the ethical issues in nursing research in the U.S. Changes in the financial aspects of patient care; Importance of computer security system in medical files; Reasons for confidentiality in medical records.

Discusses books that address the ethical issues in nursing research. Ethical issues in sexuality and reproduction; Ethical obligation of clinicians; Ethical obligations of researchers.

Focuses on ethical issues in nursing research. Topics addressed by the literature in bioethics; Aiken and LaFollet's three-way relationship among child, parents and the state; Joel feinberg's essays covering bioethics, social and legal philosophy, rights theory and theory of justice; Five areas of scientific researcg in Belsey's journal article, entitled 'Scientific researcg and moral problems'.

Discusses the article 'Quality of Interpersonal Style Among Hospitalized Psychiatric Patients,' by Margaret Topf and colleagues, published in the June 1979 issue of the 'Western Journal of Nursing Research.' Praise for the study's systematic examination of data, theory, myth and stereotye; Questions which the study failed to answer in regard to certain subject variables.

Reflects on ethical issues in the allocation of health care resources. Egalitarian notion of justice; How nurses perceive the distribution of health care; Argument of redistributionists.