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Understanding the ethical issues in infertility nursing practice. 1992

G B White

Nurses are actively involved in planning and providing nursing care to infertile individuals and couples in a variety of health care settings. Infertility is a health problem with ethical and physical, psychological, and social dimensions. Rather than evaluating the ethical advantages and disadvantages of each reproductive technology, the author suggests that the ethical issues that face nurses in caring for infertile individuals be assessed from the standpoint of possible harm to the individual and family. From this perspective, a lack of accurate information about treatment outcomes appears to be a serious ethical issue and one that nurses can, in part, remedy.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007246	Infertility	A reduced or absent capacity to reproduce.	Sterility,Reproductive Sterility,Sterility, Reproductive,Sub-Fertility,Subfertility
D007248	Infertility, Male	The inability of the male to effect FERTILIZATION of an OVUM after a specified period of unprotected intercourse. Male sterility is permanent infertility.	Sterility, Male,Sub-Fertility, Male,Subfertility, Male,Male Infertility,Male Sterility,Male Sub-Fertility,Male Subfertility,Sub Fertility, Male
D008297	Male		Males
D011640	Public Policy	A course or method of action selected, usually by a government, from among alternatives to guide and determine present and future decisions.	Social Policy,Affirmative Action,Migration Policy,Population Policy,Social Protection,Action, Affirmative,Migration Policies,Policies, Migration,Policies, Population,Policies, Public,Policies, Social,Policy, Migration,Policy, Population,Policy, Public,Policy, Social,Population Policies,Protection, Social,Public Policies,Social Policies
D012099	Reproductive Techniques	Methods pertaining to the generation of new individuals, including techniques used in selective BREEDING, cloning (CLONING, ORGANISM), and assisted reproduction (REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED).	Reproductive Technology,Reproduction Technics,Reproduction Techniques,Reproductive Technologies,Technology, Reproductive,Reproduction Technic,Reproduction Technique,Reproductive Technique,Technic, Reproduction,Technics, Reproduction,Technique, Reproduction,Technique, Reproductive,Techniques, Reproduction,Techniques, Reproductive,Technologies, Reproductive
D004993	Ethics, Nursing	The principles of proper professional conduct concerning the rights and duties of nurses themselves, their patients, and their fellow practitioners, as well as their actions in the care of patients and in relations with their families.	Nursing Ethics,Ethic, Nursing,Nursing Ethic
D005260	Female		Females
D005783	Gender Identity	A person's concept of self as being male and masculine or female and feminine, or ambivalent, based in part on physical characteristics, parental responses, and psychological and social pressures. It is the internal experience of gender role.	Gender,Gender Identities,Identity, Gender
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000328	Adult	A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available.	Adults