Citation

Stokes G. Educ. Philos. Theor. 2007; 39(5): 494-505.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1469-5812.2007.00249.x

PMID

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Abstract

Nurse educators, like many of their health care professional colleagues, frequently face moral dilemmas when they identify a student as presenting an unacceptable risk to public safety. In this situation, the statutory requirement of nurse educators to protect the public, under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act (2003), competes with the rights of the student to receive education under the Education Act (1989). Using the different moral voices of justice and care, identified by Gilligan (1982), this moral dilemma is examined within the context of one school of nursing in a New Zealand tertiary education organisation.