This cross-cultural study was designed to compare the attitudes of physicians and nurses
toward physician–nurse collaboration in the United States, Israel, Italy and Mexico. Total …

The purpose of this qualitative study was to analyse nurses' professional dignity in their
everyday working lives. We explored the factors that affect nursing professional dignity in …

Aims and objectives The aims of the study were to describe which of the core techniques of
the physical assessment are regularly performed by a sample of Italian nurses, and to …

Background: The concept of dignity can be divided into two main attributes: absolute dignity
that calls for recognition of an inner worth of persons and social dignity that can be …

Aim. This paper is a report of a study exploring the use of ethical codes and obstacles to
their use in nursing practice as perceived by Finnish, Greek and Italian nurses. Background …

This discussion examines the emergence of professional codes of ethics, influences that
shape contemporary midwifery ethics, and the adequacy of codes to actualize values …

In this article we focus on female genital mutilation. We analyse this problem as one of the
most important issues of multiculturalism, which is also coming to the attention of the public …

This article is a first assessment of the Italian Code of deontology for nurses (revised in
1999) on the basis of data collected from focus groups with nurses taking part in the Ethical …

We explored the perceptions of Italian nurses regarding their developing culture as a health
profession. We sought to understand the ongoing evolution of the nursing profession and …

Sociocultural and organizational factors that influence the work culture of nurses in an Italian
operating theater were the subject of the present qualitative explorative study. Italy is one of …