Commitment and Responsibility in Nursing: A Faith-Based Approach

Author: Jack T. Hanford
Date: Summer 2008
From: Ethics & Medicine: An International Journal of Bioethics(Vol. 24, Issue 2)
Publisher: Trinity Graduate School
Document Type: Book review
Length: 450 words
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Commitment and Responsibility in Nursing: A Faith-Based Approach Bart Cusveller, Agnes Sutton, Donal O'Mathuna, Editors. Sioux Center, Iowa: Dordt College Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0932914514; 184 PAGES, PAPER $16.00

America is currently in a nursing crisis defined as a shortage of nurses. But, isn't the crisis really about why there is a shortage? Why should there be a shortage in one of the greatest aspiring professions within a democracy? How does any profession survive within an egalitarian democracy? Did managed care destroy nursing? Why didn't the 'invisible hand' of the market save nursing? Might this still happen? What relationship is there between Christian faith and nursing with its crisis in America and the...

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Hanford, Jack T. "Commitment and Responsibility in Nursing: A Faith-Based Approach." Ethics & Medicine: An International Journal of Bioethics, vol. 24, no. 2, summer 2008, p. 121. link.gale.com/apps/doc/A311293367/AONE?u=gale&sid=bookmark-AONE. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
  

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