Being in the world of the suffering patient: A challenge to nursing ethics

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 528-539

  Råholm, Maj Britt ^a   Lindholm, Lisbet ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Caring; Ethics; Health; Suffering

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EMPATHY; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LONELINESS; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING THEORY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; EMPATHY; ETHICS, NURSING; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONELINESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING THEORY; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL VALUES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 0033218029     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/096973399670373243     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Eriksson K. Mot en caritativ vårdetik (Towards a caritative caring ethics). (Reports from the Department of Caring Science, no. 5). Vasa: Åbo Akademi, 1995.
2. Grundle LP, Reeves RB, Tate S, Raft P, McLaurin LP. Psychosocial outcomes after coronary artery surgery. J Psychiatry 1980; 137: 1591-94.
3. Rankin S. Differences in recovery from cardiac surgery: a profile of male and female patients. Heart Lung 1990; 19: 481-85.
4. Keller C. Seeking normalcy: the experience of coronary artery bypass surgery. Res Nurs Health 1991; 14: 161-78.
5. Flynn MK, Frantz R. Coronary artery bypass surgery: quality of life during early convalescence. Heart Lung 1987; 24: 159-67.
6. Jensen A, Grosby H, Rafaelsen L. Psykosocial tilpasning hos hjertekirurgiske patienter (Psychosocial adaptation of the coronary patient). Nord Psykiatr Tidssk 1987; 47: 97-105.
7. Artinian NT. Stress experience of spouses of patients having coronary artery bypass during hospitalization and six weeks after discharge. Heart Lung 1991; 20: 52-59.
8. Kornfeld DS, Heller SS, Frank KA, Wilson SN, Malm JR. Psychological and behavioral responses after coronary artery bypass surgery. Circulation 1982; 3: 24-28.
9. Penckofer SH, Holm K. Early appraisal of coronary revascularization on quality of life. J Nurs Res 1984; 33: 60-63.
10. Packa DR. Quality of life of cardiac patients: a review. J Cardiovasc Nurs 1989; 3: 46-52.
11. Mayou R, Bryant S. Quality of life after coronary artery surgery. J Med Q 1987; 63: 639-48.
12. Roach MS. Caring ontology: ethics and the call of suffering. Int J Hum Caring 1998; 2: 30-34.
13. Younger JB. The alienation of the sufferer. J Adv Nurs Sci 1995; 17: 53-72.
14. Eriksson K, Herberts S, Lindholm L. Images of suffering - suffering in the light of current research in caring science. Hoitotiede 1994; 6: 155-62.
15. Nerheim H. Vitenskap och kommunikasjon. Paradigmer, modeller og kommunikative strategier i helsefagenes vitenskapsteori (Science and communication. Paradigms, models and communicative strategies in the scientific knowledge of caring science). Oslo: Oslo University Press, 1966.
16. Eriksson K. Möten med lidanden (Encountering suffering). (Reports from the Department of Caring Science, no. 4). Vasa: Åbo Akademi, 1993.
17. Eriksson K. Den lidande människan (The suffering human being) (in Swedish). Arlöw: Liber Utbildning, 1994.
18. Etiska vägmärken. Etiska deklarationer - och riktlinjer för hälso - och sjukvården och det sociala området. Statens medicinskt-etiska råd. (Recommendations guiding physicans in biomedical research involving human subjects.) Stockholm: Public Medical Ethical Council, 1990.
19. Colaizzi P. Psychological research as the phenomenologist views it. In: Valle R, King M eds. Existential phenomenological alternative for psychology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978: 48-71.
20. Mayeroff M. On caring. New York: Harper and Row, 1971.
21. Tuckett AG. An ethic of the fitting: a conceptual framework for nursing practice. Nurs Inquiry 1998; 5: 220-27.
22. Buber M. I and Thou (Smith R trans.). New York: Macmillan, 1992. (Originally published 1958.)
23. Noddings N. Caring. A feminine approach to ethics and moral education. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1984.