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Conscience: the professional and the personal
Author(s) -
Brown J.M.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of nursing management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.925
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1365-2834
pISSN - 0966-0429
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2834.1996.02086.x
Subject(s) - conscience , appeal , social consciousness , psychology , social psychology , law , political science
Conscience is sometimes thought of as private, personal, individual, possibly religious, and not to be questioned. This paper seeks to present and make plausible an account of conscience as social, possibly secular, and fallible (and hence corrigible). In the light of this an account of professional conscience is offered and conclusions are drawn about the questions that should be answered in the event of a nurse making an appeal to conscience.