Primary care nurse practitioners' integrity when faced with moral conflict

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 795-809

  Laabs, Carolyn Ann ^a,b  

^a MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics; Grounded theory; Moral distress; Moral integrity; Nurse practitioners; Primary care

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; CHARACTER; CONFLICT; ETHICAL THEORY; ETHICS; FEMALE; FRUSTRATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; MORALITY; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNCERTAINTY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHARACTER; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); ETHICAL THEORY; FEMALE; FRUSTRATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MORALS; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT ADVOCACY; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNCERTAINTY; VIRTUES;

EID: 38949193334     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: 14770989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0969733007082120     Document Type: Article

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