Browsing by Subjects (CINAHL) "Decision Making, Ethical"
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Advance care planning in patients with heart disease: A practice improvement initiative
(2015-07-24)Background: Despite cardiovascular disease being the number one cause of death, advance directives are infrequently used in this population. The Patient Self- Determination Act (PSDA) took effect in 1991 to protect ... -
Ethical dilemmas of nurse executives: A descriptive study
This research was designed to describe the ethical dilemmas and to identify the facilitating and inhibiting factors perceived by nurse executives when making decisions that have ethical implications. As there has been ... -
Moral regret - The experience of breaches of a nursing ideal
(11/24/2015)Recently, Johnstone and Hutchinson (2015) called for abandoning the construct of “moral distress”. For various reasons, they believe that too much attention is paid to it in the nursing literature, that the ... -
Nurses' negotiation processes in facilitating ethical decision-making in patient care
The literature on ethical decision-making by nurses presents both prescriptive and descriptive decision-making models. The processes nurses use to move through the step-wise models has not been described. An atheoretical ... -
Towards a context-sensitive theory of nursing ethics: classification and comparison of nurses' narratives from four time periods (1934, 1979, 1989, and 1995)
This two-phase, descriptive study used qualitative content analysis of nurses' narratives from 1934, 1979, 1989 and 1995 to determine whether the Wilkinson bifocal model of moral problem construction could account for all ...