In the introduction to his textbook, Ethical Issues in Nursing (1994) Geoff Hunt decries the manner in which ethics is being introduced into nursing curricula throughout the UK. He states, many ethics courses presuppose that nurses have a need for ‘help with moral decision-making’ and that to satisfy this need they should be taught ‘moral concepts’ or ‘principles’ or even ‘moral theory’. It is assumed nurses need yet another procedure, a framework of rules, which they can apply to the situations they encounter at work… In the case of ethics many appear convinced that a heavy dose of theories and principles carrying labels like ‘deontology or utilitarianism’, ‘beneficence’, ‘non-maleficence’, ‘autonomy’, ‘quality or sanctity of life’ will fill the moral void in our health care system (p. 4).