Ethical Aspects of Resuscitation in Nursing
Introduction In order of responsible approaching to all the challenges of modern nursing, the nurse accepts responsibility and commitment in providing health care within the legal domain of nursing practice. Nursing is facing a complex request for identification and elimination of the patient's problems involving ethical approach, knowledge, skills and abilities. In their work, nurses daily encounter with resuscitation of patients, where they are required by conscience and commitment to save every human life. Cardiac arrest is a condition characterized by extremely high mortality. Especially important topic relates to nurses employed in the field of primary health care, who work in isolated clinics in rural areas, where they are often the only health workers and must themselves make a decision on the initiation and implementation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Through long history, cardiopulmonary resuscitation passed through different phases that were associated with technological and scientific development Abstract *1,2Zlatko Ciric, 3,4Dejan Zivanovic, 2,5Natasa Stojakovic