In the process of cancer treatment and care, the ethical duties
of the cancer nurses contribute to preventing ethical dilemmas,
resolving ethical problems, and most importantly maintaining
an ethical cancer care system. The ethical duties of humanistic
caregiving, disclosure, honesty, relief of pain and suffering,
fair distribution of resources, provision of adequate palliative
care, and assistance to patients and families for imminent
death, which are the hallmarks of oncology nursing, are justified
by the values, professional standards and the contemporary
roles of nursing. Therefore, ethical competency of the
oncology nurse is an inevitable requirement.
Keywords: Ethics values; ethics duties; nursing ethics; clinical ethics; oncology ethics; oncology nursing
