Nurses' ethical conflicts in performance of utilization reviews.

Abstract:

:This article describes the ethical conflicts that a sample of US nurse utilization reviewers faced in their work, and also each nurse's self-reported ethical orientation that was used to resolve the dilemmas. Data were collected from a sample of 97 registered nurses who were working at least 20 hours per week as utilization reviewers. Respondents were recruited from three managed care organizations that conduct utilization reviews in a large midwestern city. A cross-sectional survey design was used to collect demographic data and to ask closed-response, short-answer and open-ended questions. Ethical conflicts reported by nurses were similar across utilization review settings and many were justice orientated. Self-reported ethical orientations were similar across organizations, with beneficence dominating. Implications of these findings are discussed.

journal_name

Nurs Ethics

journal_title

Nursing ethics

authors

Bell SE

doi

10.1191/0969733003ne635oa

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subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2003-09-01 00:00:00

pages

541-54

issue

5

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0969-7330

issn

1477-0989

journal_volume

10

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