RT Article
T1 Nursing Ethics in the Seventh-Day Adventist Religious Tradition
JF Nursing ethics
VO 16
IS 6
SP 707
OP 718
A1 Johnston Taylor, Elizabeth
A1 Carr, Mark F
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2009
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1779447558
AB Nurses’ religious beliefs influence their motivations and perspectives, including their practice of ethics in nursing care. When the impact of these beliefs is not recognized, great potential for unethical nursing care exists. Thus, this article examines how the theology of one religious tradition, Seventh-day Adventism (SDA), could affect nurses. An overview of SDA history and beliefs is presented, which explains why ‘medical missionary’ work is central to SDAs. Theological foundations that would permeate an SDA nurse’s view of the nursing metaparadigm concepts of person, health, environment (i.e. community), and nursing (i.e. service) are presented. The ethical principles guiding SDA nurses (i.e. principled, case-based, and care ethics) and the implications of these theological foundations for nurses are noted in a case study.
K1 Christianity
K1 Seventh-day Adventist
K1 Religion
K1 nurse/nursing
K1 Ethics
DO 10.1177/0969733009343135