Abstract:
:Ethical decision-making is inherent in nursing practice. Although a definite portion of the nursing literature is devoted to ethics and ethical decision-making, the profession is just beginning to ground its ethics research in the actual experience of nurses. Therefore, the purpose of this phenomenological study was to examine the experience of staff nurses as they engage in ethical decision-making. Interview data were collected from 19 staff nurses in a large, midwestern American metropolitan hospital. Interviews were subsequently transcribed and Giorgi's method of data analysis applied. The emerging description revealed four common aspects of ethical decision-making among staff nurses: context, trigger, ethical decision-making process (i.e. deliberation and integration), and outcomes. This description provides a foundation for future research regarding a descriptive theory of ethical decision-making in nursing.
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Nurs Ethicsjournal_title
Nursing ethicsauthors
Smith KVdoi
10.1177/096973309600300104subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1996-03-01 00:00:00pages
17-25issue
1eissn
0969-7330issn
1477-0989journal_volume
3pub_type
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