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Ethical considerations for nurse-managed health centers.

Beidler SM

Quantum Foundation Center for Innovation in School and Community Well Being, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431, USA. sbeidler@fau.edu

Ethical issues are commonplace in the health care delivery system. Nurse practitioners (NPs) working in nurse-managed health centers (NMHCs) frequently care for patients who are vulnerable and marginalized as a result of their culture, language, low income, or lack of insurance. Because a nurse's commitment is to care for patients without considerations of social or economic status, personal attributes, or the nature of health problems, the distress that occurs while advocating for patients through and around existing barriers to health care access needs to be anticipated and addressed.

Published 5 December 2005 in Nurs Clin North Am, 40(4): 759-70, xii.
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