A variety of ethical issues confronting the nursing profession are examined in these proceedings. The following papers are presented: (1) "Ethics: Care & Conflict," by Leah Curtin; (2) "The Interface of Politics and Ethics in Nursing," by Mila Aroskar; (3) "Pluralistic Ethical Decision-Making," by Rita Payton; (4) "Compassion, Technology & the Law: Three Forces Shaping Health Care," by Linda Moskowitz and George T. Lukemeyer; (5) "Nursing Ethics: The Everyday Moral Problems," by Carole Caresio and Stephen Roades; (6) "Exclusion and Confirmation: A Phenomenology of Patients' Experience with Caregivers," by Nancy Drew; (7) "Health Professionals' Obligation to Noncompliant Clients," by Jo A. Brooks; (8) "Ethical Evaluation of Nursing Diagnosis," by Mary Ellen Wurzbach; (9) "Nursing Advocate for Client Autonomy: Resolving a Dilemma," by Karla Lowe-Phelps; (10) "Research Report--Moral Distress in Nursing Practice: Experience and Effect," by Judith M. Wilkinson; (11) "Use of Predictive Factors in Severe Head Injury: Ethical Considerations," by Mariah Snyder; (12) "When the "No Code" Becomes an Early Death Certificate: A Case Study from the Family Perspective," by Jane A. Carlstrom; and (13) "Involuntary Hospitalization in the Residential Facility," by Merry Rumppe. (AYC)