Nursing ethics: brief history and current development

This paper explores in brief history and development of nursing ethics in the past decades in China. In the past ten years, many original articles and textbooks are published and academic communication is active in the area of nursing ethics. Currently China nursing ethics has set up its concepts framework, and formed the ethical problem-based research paradigm, and published its ethical guideline. This paper concludes with recommendations for improving the quality of nursing ethics research in contemporary China. Key words: Ethics, nursing; Bioethical issues; Codes of ethics; Ethical decision making