Are submissive nurses ethical?: Reflecting on power anorexia

We believe that the notion of power anorexia, which we define as a lack of desire to exercise power, is central to reflections about nursing ethical concerns. Questioning the assumption that nurses are powerless, we argue that nurses can and do exercise power and that their actions and inactions hav...

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Main Authors: Valeria Lerch Lunardi, Elizabeth Peter, Denise Gastaldo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem
Series:Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem
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Online Access:http://revodonto.bvsalud.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-71672002000200012&lng=en&tlng=en