Autonomy in nursing is the ability of nurses to understand their patient's right to medical information and care while independently making decisions without consulting the healthcare provider.

Nursing issues have been in the news in the last week and not all of them have been good. First, AMN Healthcare released a survey that found nearly half of the nurses who responded want to make a ...

Current nursing literature has suggested that nurses may have low needs or preferences for decision-making autonomy. In this study, the authors found that nurses differed in their preferences for ...

This study examined the rate of change in reports of importance of 27 autonomy-related everyday preferences from the Preferences for Everyday Living Inventory over 3-months and the demographic and ...

Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 35, No. 11 (November 2009), pp. 672-677 (6 pages) Background: The increasing number of elderly people in nursing homes with failing competence to give consent ...