Nursing Ethics

The international journal Nursing Ethics has grown in size and importance since its beginning. It is available online as part of a personal and institutional subscription: nursing-ethics.com. The Current Contents can be found here.

An International Journal for Health Care Professionals

Nursing Ethics:

• is a resource for nurses, midwives, health visitors and professionals in the rehabilitation and related disciplines
• provides a forum for studies in the morality, ethics and law of the caring professions
• relates to professional development in its practical approach to topics.

Editor: Ann Gallagher, University of Surrey, UK.

The Journal appears six times a year: ISSN 0969-7330

Information for authors.

Nursing Ethics:

• carries empirical studies concerning ethical and legal issues, conceptual analyses of modes of thought in health care, comparative and cross-cultural studies
• analyses official documents and codes of conduct from statutory bodies, professional organisations, government departments and health authorities
• focuses on political and policy issues as they affect the health care professionals
• has a special interest in the accountability of the professions vis-a-vis management, inter-professional relations, patient rights and welfare
• examines topical issues and news items
• debates contentious issues in specific fields of care
• discusses connections between ethical and legal issues
• deals with issues of politics, gender, the environment of care, management and administration
• also covers issues of spiritual care and philosophy of care

Nursing Ethics features commissioned and non-commissioned articles, case studies, codes and declarations, news items, book reviews, comments, correspondence and notices of meetings, events and conferences. All articles are anonymously refereed.

Correspondence, comments and documents should be sent to the editor directly.

Nursing Ethics is abstracted/listed in:

• Academic Sear Premier
• Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA)
• BDlic
• Bibliography of Bioethics
• British Nursing Index
• Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL)
• English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting
• Health Care Database
• Fundacion Index
• Index Medicus/MEDLINE
• International Nursing Index
• ISI Current Contents/Social and Behavioural Sciences
• ISI Discovery Agent
• Nursing Abstracts
• Philospher's Index
• RCM Current Awareness Service
• Social Sciences Citation Index (also known as Social SciSearch)

Nursing Ethics Archive

The list of documents below are contents pages and editorials from Nursing Ethics.

Vol 16 No 1 (contents)

Vol 16 No 1 (editorial)

Vol 15 No 6 (contents)

Vol 15 No 6 (editorial)

Vol 15 No 5 (contents)

Vol 15 No 5 (editorial)

Vol 15 No 4 (contents)

Vol 15 No 4 (editorial)

Vol 15 No 3 (contents)

Vol 15 No 3 (editorial)

Vol 15 No 2 (contents)

Vol 15 No 2 (editorial)

Vol 15 No 1 (contents)

Vol 15 No 1 (editorial)

Vol 14 No 6 (contents)

Vol 14 No 6 (editorial)

Vol 14 No 5 (contents)

Vol 14 No 5 (editorial)

Vol 14 No 4 (contents)

Vol 14 No 4 (editorial)

Vol 14 No 3 (contents)

Vol 14 No 3 (editorial)

Vol 14 No 2 (contents)

Vol 14 No 2 (editorial)

Vol 13 No 6 (contents)

Vol 13 No 6 (editorial)

Vol 13 No 5 (contents)

Vol 13 No 5 (editorial)

Vol 12 No 6 (contents)

Vol 12 No 6 (editorial)

Vol 12 No. 4 Editorial (2005)

Vol 12 No. 4 (July 2005)

Editorial Vol. 12 No. 2

Vol 11 No. 6 (2004)

Vol 11 No. 5 (2004)

Vol 11 No. 4 (2004)

Vol 11 No. 3 (2004)

Vol 11 No. 1 (2004)

Editorial Vol.10 No.2 (& editorial comment)

Editorial Vol.9 No.6

Editorial Vol.8 No.6 (& Editorial comment & contents)

Editorial Vol.8 No. 4 (& Editorial comments & contents)

Editorial Vol.8 No.1 & Editorial comment by Ulla Fasting

Editorial Vol.7 No. 2 (March 2000)

Editorial Vol.7 No.1 (January 2000)

Special issue on Genetic Nursing (May 2000)