Editorial comment. Clinical ethics and challenges to individualized care.

摘要

Ethical issues are unavoidable in everyday clinical practice. Clinical ethics provides a structured approach for identifying, analysing and resolving ethical issues that arise in health care practice. The theme of this year's International Centre for Nursing Ethics Conference is 'Clinical ethics across the lifespan' and here I take the opportunity to share some ideas relating to the conference theme. My research and practice involvement with clinical ethics is informed by empirical and conceptual work in nursing ethics and from practice experience. I have worked as a quality and development manager in a health care organization, where I experienced a frontline view of health care delivery from patient complaint and feedback systems.