Sue Ellen Bell

..The public health nurses in this sample were less likely to view smallpox as a potential biological weapon than was the general public or other healthcare workers studied previously...

..Self-reported ethical orientations were similar across organizations, with beneficence dominating. Implications of these findings are discussed...

..Implications for nursing care quality are discussed...

..The need for such committees, as well as clarification of a consistent and deliberate ethical climate by nurse administrators, is discussed...

..For unique experiences that contribute to workplace diversity, life experiences with diversity, and diversity training are important for culturally competent behaviors...

..The advantages of a framework to address ethical conflicts are discussed...

..Suggestions are made for expanding documentation tools to improve nursing discharge planning and case management to ensure that the patient or caregiver is able to carry out self-care activities at home...

..Each of the metaparadigm concepts and the central concept of social justice is discussed as it applies to a model of urban health nursing teaching, research, and practice...

..Public health nurses have the obligation to deal with the results of poverty and the uneven distribution of resources, which pose a threat to the common good in the United States and throughout the global community...