As a clinical nurse manager for the acute rehab department and the department of psychiatry at my hospital whose theorist of choice is Virginia Henderson, I hold a complex of values and beliefs, as well as a code of ethics, concerning what nursing is and what my personal world view of nursing care looks like. Like Henderson, I see my function as a nurse as being to help patients recover just as they would if they had the physical strength to do so on their own and the requisite knowledge required to effect their recovery. This standard exerts a potent impact on what I can and cannot do from an ethical standpoint.
At the core of my values is a belief in maintaining a culture of life rather than the culture of death that is becoming more prevalent in American society. American culture is becoming increasi
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