{"id":13200,"date":"1992-10-15T14:56:00","date_gmt":"1992-10-15T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13200"},"modified":"2023-01-29T17:11:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T01:11:36","slug":"correspondence-readers-advocate-pro-conscience-not-pro-choice-invited-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13200","title":{"rendered":"(Correspondence) Readers Advocate Pro-conscience, Not Pro-Choice (Invited response)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Susan Wysocki<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"167\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/nursepractitioner.jpg\" alt=\"The Nurse Practitioner\" class=\"wp-image-12389\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Nurse Practitioner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Extract<\/strong><br>A nurse practitioner&#8217;s personal position on this issue is irrelevant in tem1s of the provision of patient care. Our responsibility as nurse practitioners is to provide our patients with information that helps them to make their own decisions based on the constructs of their own beliefs and needs. This does not mean that nurse practitioners who find a patient&#8217;s reproductive-health decisions to be in conflict with their own morals and beliefs should be forced to counsel on those choices. Instead, they have a responsibility to ensure that the patient has her needs met with another provider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Wysocki S. (Correspondence) Readers Advocate Pro-conscience, Not Pro-Choice (Invited response). Nurse Pract. 1992 Oct;17(10):8-9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Wysocki ExtractA nurse practitioner&#8217;s personal position on this issue is irrelevant in tem1s of the provision of patient care. Our responsibility as nurse practitioners is to provide our patients with information that helps them to make their own decisions based on the constructs of their own beliefs and needs. 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