Gladys Husted
PhD, RN
Distinguished Professor
Duquesne University School of Nursing
Pittsburgh

• The health care professional is the agent of a patient acting to restore the patient’s agency. Agency being the power to initiate actions.

• For a practice-based ethic, the patient is the center of a health care professional’s attention.

• The health care professional/patient agreement and fidelity to this agreement is the basis of all benevolence and cooperation in the health care setting.

• There are standards of bioethical action that are preconditions and, therefore, sub-agreements of the health care professional/patient agreement. Ethical action is action in accordance with these standards. Such actions satisfy bioethical responsibilities.

Symphonology guides the analysis of any particular dilemma by establishing a perspective from which a professional can perceive and understand a patient. This then guides the information gathering process, provides a method through which the analysis is performed, and directs the manner in which a health are professional interacts with a patient.

(Extract from: Symphonological Bioethical Theory: Details.)
 

• Symphonological Bioethical Theory - Duquesne University, Pittsburgh

• Gladys L. Husted

• 2001 Husted, G. L., & Husted, J. H. (1995). Ethical decision making in nursing (3rd ed.). New York: Springer.

• 1995 Husted, G. L., & Husted, J. H. (1995). Ethical decision making in nursing (2nd ed.). St. Louis, MO: Mosby.Selected by nursing and Health Care's Notable books of 2000.

• 1991 Husted, G. L., & Husted, J. H. (1991). Ethical decision making in nursing. St. Louis, MO: Mosby.Selected by nursing and Health Care's Notable books of 2000.