Caring to confront in the workplace: An ethical perspective for nurses

Abstract

Because women's sense of integrity appears to be entwined with an ethic of care, so that to see themselves as women is to see themselves in a relationship of connection; the major transitions in women's lives would seem to involve changes in the understanding and activities of care...when the distinction between helping and pleasing frees the activity of taking care from the wish of approval by other, the ethic of responsibility can become a self-chosen anchor of personal integrity and strength)