Ethics of Care Theory and Phases of Caring

According to the text, nutritional care must be exercised with attentiveness, responsibility, competence, responsiveness, and solidarity.

The text suggests that prescribing nutrition interventions only involves providing food that the patient cannot or will not eat.

According to the Ethics of Care, when taking care of someone, it only concerns supplying treatment to alleviate or cure the physical condition.

Nutritional therapy is capable of curing or preventing malnutrition but does not support basic nutrient feeding essential to survival, according to the text.

The text implies that ethically, the best decision for the patient may include the decision not to feed under certain circumstances.

The Ethics of Care places the phenomenon of care at the center of ethical reflection.

The Ethics of Care consists of four phases of caring.

Traditional moral theories, such as utilitarianism and deontology, are based on the primacy of vulnerability.

The ethics of care emphasizes the notion of autonomy over vulnerability.

Malnourished patients do not face vulnerability related to the possibility of losing life.