abstract：:Although patient education is central to the ethical practice of nursing, it can be practiced in an ethically contested or unethical way. It is sometimes used to: forward a societal goal the individual might not have chosen; assume that patients should learn to accommodate unjust treatment; exclude the views of all ex...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Redman BK

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study focuses on investigating habits in perioperative nursing culture, which are often simply accepted and not normally considered or discussed. A hermeneutical approach was chosen as the means of understanding perioperative nurses' experiences of and reflections on operating theatre culture. Focus group discuss...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Lindwall L,von Post I

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persons exhibiting mutations in two tumor suppressor genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, have a greatly increased risk of developing breast and/or ovarian cancer. The incidence of BRCA gene mutation is very high in Ashkenazi Jewish women of European descent, and many issues can arise, particularly for observant Orthodox women, be...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Mor P,Oberle K

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advocacy has been positioned as an ideal within the practice of nursing, with national guidelines and professional standards obliging nurses to respect patients' autonomous choices and to act as their advocates. However, the meaning of advocacy and autonomy is not well defined or understood, leading to uncertainty reg...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Simmonds AH

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Qualitative research poses ethical issues and challenges unique to the study of human beings. In developing the interpersonal relationship that is critical to qualitative research, investigator and participant engage in a dialogic process that often evokes stories and memories that are remembered and reconstituted in ...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Eide P,Kahn D

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explored Swedish school nurses' experiences of school health record documentation. Fifty per cent of a representative sample of Swedish school nurses (n = 129) reported difficulties with documenting mental and social health problems in family relationships, schoolchildren's behaviour, and school situations....

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Clausson EK,Köhler L,Berg A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our aim was to describe Chinese nurses' experiences of workplace distress and ethical dilemmas on a neurological ward. Qualitative interviews were performed with 20 nurses. On using latent content analysis, themes emerged in four content areas: ethical dilemmas, workplace distress, quality of nursing and managing dist...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Tang PF,Johansson C,Wadensten B,Wenneberg S,Ahlström G

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on nursing ideology and the ethics of child and adolescent psychiatric nursing care is limited. The aim of this study was to describe and explore the ideological approaches guiding psychiatric nursing in child and adolescent psychiatric inpatient wards in Finland, and discuss the ethical, theoretical and prac...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Ellilä H,Välimäki M,Warne T,Sourander A

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to look beyond the patient as the source of difficulty and to examine the context of care encounters for factors that contributed to the construction of difficulty in the nurse-patient encounter. The study explains the origins of difficulty in the nurse-patient encounter. This explanation...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Macdonald M

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nursing, or caring science, is mainly concerned with developing knowledge of what constitutes ideal, good health care for patients as whole persons, and how to achieve this. The aim of this study was to find clinical empirical indications of good ethical care and to investigate the substance of ideal nursing care in p...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Arman M,Rehnsfeldt A

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human dignity is grounded in basic human attributes such as life and self-respect. When people cannot stand up for themselves they may lose their dignity towards themselves and others. The aim of this study was to elucidate if dignity remains intact for family members during care procedures in a children's hospital. A...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Lundqvist A,Nilstun T

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The movie, The terminal, is used to illustrate MacIntyre's description of virtue ethics. The terminal is a mythical tale about a traveler, Viktor Navorski, who is stranded by circumstances in a New York airport. Viktor is a person who, without a strict reliance on duty or rules, has developed the disposition to act we...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Austin W

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new Turkish Penal Code came into effect on 1 June 2005. Article 280 concerns health care workers' failure to report a crime. This article removes the responsibility from health care workers to maintain confidentiality, but also removes patients' right to confidentiality. It provides for up to one year of imprisonmen...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Büken E,Sahinoğlu S,Büken NO

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to describe how patients' participation in the care they received was documented in their health care records during the last three months of their lives. Two hundred and twenty-nine deceased adult persons were randomly identified from 12 municipalities in a Swedish county and their records w...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Lindström I,Gaston-Johansson F,Danielson E

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to care ethically nurses need to care holistically; holistic care includes religious/spiritual care. This research attempted to answer the question: Do nurses have the resources to offer religious care? This article discusses only one aspect--the provision of religious care within the Taiwanese health care sy...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Tzeng HM,Yin CY

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this analysis I apply a Foucauldian approach to ethics to examine the politically prescribed moral and ethical character required of carers of aged persons at home in Australia and the role of nurses in shaping these behaviours. The work that spousal carers provide, although often founded on love and/or obligation,...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Winch S

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A virtue centred approach to ethics has been criticized for being vague owing to the nature of its central concept, the paradigm person. From the perspective of the practitioner the most damaging charge is that virtue ethics fails to be action guiding and, in addition to this, it does not offer any means of act apprai...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Begley AM

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central question in this article concerns the implications of developments in the rearrangement of tasks in health care, particularly for nurses in terms of their duties and responsibilities. Attention is focused on the transfer of medical tasks from physicians to nurses. An investigation was carried out on the im...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： de Bijl NP

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this overview of published articles on decision making in paediatric care was to identify important aspects of its possible use in clinical practice and to obtain a base for future research. A literature review was undertaken utilizing snowball sampling to identify articles because of the diversity pres...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Hallström I,Elander G

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors' aim is to bring to the attention of readers the inadequacies of care for people in Hungary who are terminally ill. They believe that both objective and subjective factors cause these inadequacies. Most of these factors arise from moral dilemmas that could be eased or even solved if ethics education had a ...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Blasszauer B,Palfi I

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nursing research in palliative care raises specific and challenging ethical issues. Questions have arisen about whether such research is morally justified, given the low likelihood of direct benefit to dying patients as research participants. The Canadian Code of Ethics for Registered Nurses outlines eight primary val...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Arraf K,Cox G,Oberle K

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ethical 'eye' of nursing, that is, the particular moral vision and values inherent in nursing work, is constrained by the preoccupations and practices of the superordinate biomedical structure in which nursing as a practice discipline is embedded. The intimate, situated knowledge of particular persons who construc...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Bjorklund P

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article deals with nurses' ethical concerns raised by the consequences of changes in governmental and institutional policies on nursing practice and patient care. The aims of this project were to explore perspectives of registered nurses who provide or manage direct patient care on policies that affect nursing an...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Aroskar MA,Moldow DG,Good CM

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this research was to describe attitudes of nursing students (and paramedic officers) towards marginalized clients. Convenience quota sampling in a major health faculty was employed. Students participated on a voluntary basis. A 58-item Likert scale, developed by the authors, assessed the student nurses'...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Zrinyi M,Balogh Z

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In seeking for an understanding of ethical practices in health care situations, our challenge is always both to recognize and respond to the call of individuals in need. In attuning ourselves to the call of the vulnerable other an ethical moment arises. Asking 'how are you?' in health care practice is our very first p...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Cameron BL

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there has been a vast amount of research about suicide, very few studies focus on the inner world of the suicidal patient. A secondary analysis of two exemplar narrative interviews with Norwegian patients reveals a glimpse of the inner world of suicidal patients' longing for consolation. The results of a phen...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Talseth AG,Gilje F,Norberg A

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

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 utili...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Bell SE

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is currently a global shortage of nurses. Developing countries such as Malawiare among those hardest hit by this shortage. The demands on available nurses have increased and at the same time there is a lack of interest in becoming a nurse owing to the poor working conditions among those still employed in the ser...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Muula AS,Mfutso-Bengo JM,Makoza J,Chatipwa E

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This philosophical inquiry examines the nature of the technology of genetic predisposition testing and its relation to patients as whole persons. The bioethical principles of non-maleficence, beneficence, autonomy and justice are judged insufficient to resolve issues associated with use. A new principle of 'sustained ...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Giarelli E

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 'no-suicide contract' is a frequently utilized tool in both the assessment and dispersal of suicidal patients. However, little attention has been given to questioning whether suicidal persons are able to give informed consent to enter such a contract. This article utilizes both the existing literature on no-suicid...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Farrow TL,O'Brien AJ

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The focus of this article is on elderly patients' and nursing staff perceptions of informed consent in the care of elderly patients/residents in five European countries. The results suggest that patients and nurses differ in their views on how informed consent is implemented. Among elderly patients the highest frequen...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Schopp A,Välimäki M,Leino-Kilpi H,Dassen T,Gasull M,Lemonidou C,Scott PA,Arndt M,Kaljonen A

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As professionals, nurses are engaged in a moral endeavour, and thus confront many challenges in making the right decision and taking the right action. When nurses cannot do what they think is right, they experience moral distress that leaves a moral residue. This article proposes a theory of moral distress and a resea...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Corley MC

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Republic of the Ukraine has a huge prison population and a large prison health care system. Like all other public services in that country it is lacking in sufficient funds to operate adequately and with due respect to the human rights of the prisoners and its health care employees. This report and observations ar...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Brykczyñska G

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All nursing courses in the UK include ethics in the curriculum, although there is considerable variation in the content of ethics courses and the teaching methods used to assist the acquisition of ethical reasoning.The effectiveness of ethics courses continues to be disputed, even when the perceptions and needs of stu...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Nolan PW,Markert D

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this article is to describe the main ethical issues in paediatric nontherapeutic qualitative pain research. It is based on an analysis of the research literature related to ethical issues in research and on experiences from a family interview study focusing on pain assessment and management in children ...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Kankkunen P,Vehviläinen-Julkunen K,Pietilä AM

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews the literature on prenatal screening for Down's syndrome. To be evidence based, medicine and nursing have to take account of research evidence and also of how this evidence is processed through the influence of prevailing social and moral attitudes. This review of the extensive literature examines...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Alderson P

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fertility treatments raise a range of social and ethical issues regarding self-identity for family, sexual intimacy, and the interests and welfare of potential children. Eggs and sperm are combined to produce fertilized eggs. These eggs are then implanted as embryos and grow into viable fetuses, which are carried by t...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Perla L

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The philosophy of empowerment, which is based on the premises that clients must be active, equal and collaborative participants, who are aware and committed to change, has guided research in empowerment interventions. This article reports on a small part of a research study that sought to understand Chinese cancer pat...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Mok E

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is the thesis of the authors that the caring ethic and moral state of being of nurses ideally suffuses their professional caring and is thus implicit in their ethical decision making. Socratic dialogue is a technique that allows such moral attitudes to be made explicit. This article describes a Socratic dialogue co...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Fitzgerald L,van Hooft S

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article seeks to shed light on the beliefs that influence nurses' intention of respecting or not respecting an advance directive document, namely a living will or a durable power of attorney. Nurses' beliefs were measured using a 44-statement questionnaire. The sample was made up of 306 nurses working either in a...

journal_title：Nursing ethics

authors： Blondeau D,Lavoie M,Valois P,Keyserlingk EW,Hébert M,Martineau I

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00