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Establishing Limits to Professional Autonomy: Whose Responsibility?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2021

Mila Ann Aroskar
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The social phenomenon known as professional nursing is kaleidoscopic. Nursing is embedded in an intricate network of relationships at all levels. This precludes any simple answer to the question of responsibility in setting limits to professional autonomy. It is useful to examine some of the pieces that one puts into one’s kaleidoscope to look at the question. Asking any question which involves multiple relationships risks finding several possible answers which then require significant decisions and choices having farreaching implications for individuals and groups. “Solutions” often challenge tenaciously held assumptions and values: this question is no different.

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Research Article
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Nursing Law & Ethics , Volume 1 , Issue 5 , May 1980 , pp. 1 - 6
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 1980

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