Respect for Autonomy: Is It Always Paramount?

Morgan, Diane

doi:10.1177/096973309600300204

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“…As shown in this study, and other similar studies, maintaining the principle of autonomy at all costs may be harmful for the patients. 25 The professional nurse has knowledge and experience that the patient needs; not to use this knowledge may be viewed as unethical practice.…”

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Intrusion into Patient Privacy: a moral concern in the home care of persons with chronic mental illness

Magnusson

Lützén

1999

Nurs Ethics

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The aim of this study was to identify and analyse ethical decision making in the home care of persons with long-term mental illness. A focus was placed on how health care workers interpret and deal with the principle of autonomy in actual situations. Three focus groups involving mental health nurses who were experienced in the home care of persons with chronic mental illness were conducted in order to stimulate an interactive dialogue on this topic. A constant comparative analysis of the transcribed audiotaped sessions identified a central theme that concerned the moral symbolic meaning of 'home'. This reflected the health care workers' conflict between their professional role and their moral role, which they perceived as unclear.

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confidence: 99%

Intrusion into Patient Privacy: a moral concern in the home care of persons with chronic mental illness

Magnusson

Lützén

1999

Nurs Ethics

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Ethical Dilemmas and the Moral Distress Commonly Experienced by Oncology Nurses: A Narrative Review from a Bioethics Consortium from India

Baliga,

Chauhan,

Kalaimathi

et al. 2024

Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol

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Nurses working in oncology frequently have to make tough moral choices, such as how to break bad news or how to make sure a dying patient receives good palliative or end-of-life care. In the context of patient care, this may limit the ethical and moral options available to nurses. This can cause moral dissonance and ethical insensitivity on the job and can be very stressful. To be able to meet ethical problems in trying times calls for capacity to recognize and know how to manage the concerns. The purpose of this article was to describe common ethical challenges and to present some methods that may be helpful when confronting them. This narrative review discusses the ethical standards that oncology nurses should uphold and implement in their daily work. Many common ethical dilemmas are also explored, and the study hopes to shed light on how novice nurses, such as students and fresh recruits, may experience when caring for cancer patients and their family caregivers. Importantly, this review also addresses aspects of how nurses can improve their skills so that they can deal with the ethical quandaries and moral discomfort that arise on a daily basis in cancer care.

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