Meeting ethical challenges in acute nursing care as narrated by registered nurses

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 133-142

  Sørlie, Venke ^a,b   Kihlgren, Annica ^b   Kihlgren, Mona ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acute care; Conscience; Ethics; Narrative; Registered nurses; Responsibility; Stress; Working environment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; HOME; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NURSE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; PATIENT; PATIENT CARE; PHENOMENOLOGY; RESPONSIBILITY; STANDARD; STRESS; TECHNIQUE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WARD; WORK; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CONSCIENCE; HEALTH FACILITY ENVIRONMENT; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING CARE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PHILOSOPHY, NURSING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF EFFICACY; SWEDEN; TIME MANAGEMENT; WORKLOAD;

EID: 14644393544     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0969733005ne770oa     Document Type: Article

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