Ethical issues experienced by healthcare workers in nursing homes: Literature review

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 490-506

  Preshaw, Deborah H L ^a   Brazil, Kevin ^a   McLaughlin, Dorry ^a   Frolic, Andrea ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ethical issues; Ethics; Literature review; Nurses; Nursing assistants; Nursing homes

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; ETHICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MORALITY; NURSING ASSISTANT; NURSING HOME; DECISION MAKING; EXERCISE; INSTITUTIONAL ETHICS; MEDICAL ETHICS; NURSING STAFF; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

DECISION MAKING; ETHICS, INSTITUTIONAL; ETHICS, NURSING; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; NURSES' AIDES; NURSING HOMES; NURSING STAFF; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL;

EID: 84991486075     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: 14770989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0969733015576357     Document Type: Review

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