Ethical Knowing in Nursing
نویسنده
چکیده
INTRODUCTION Nurses are constantly experiencing new ethical issues as a result of the global developments and changes in health care. Guidance is often needed in making ethical decisions in nursing practice. Development of nursing into a scientific discipline mandates that practice be based on theory. Thus, nursing theory is sought to provide insight to nurses in their ethical decision-making. Most nursing theories focus their descriptions on the value-laden concepts of man, environment, health, nursing and/or care, and their propositions carry ethical implications. Reed invited nursing theorists to reflect upon the values and moral visions underlying their conceptual frameworks and the consequences of their applications, and to explain their value choice directly. Mooney recommended that certain ethical elements be addressed in nursing theories, but those elements were seldom explicitly described. If nursing theory is to guide practice, the ethical component should not remain at the implicit level. The aims of this article are to identify the ethical components relevant to nursing theory and determine the criteria for evaluating this essential dimension.
منابع مشابه
Ethical practice in nursing care.
Ethical practice is acknowledged as an essential feature of good nursing, yet defining what comprises such practice is complex. This article examines aspects of ethical practice from the perspectives of healthcare professionals, service users and carers. The relationship between ethical practice and decision making is discussed, recognising the importance of context and the responsibilities of ...
متن کاملEmancipatory knowing: Hidden necessity
Background & Aim: Knowledge patterns in nursing are key foundation elements for the development of knowledge and practice. Carper identified four fundamental knowledge patterns; empirical, personal, ethical and aesthetic. Chain and Kramer added the pattern of emancipatory knowledge to Carperchr('39')s patterns. The pattern of emancipatory knowledge in nursing has been neglected. The aim of this...
متن کاملThe art and learning patterns of knowing in nursing.
Objective To identify the perception of the students about the use of art as a pedagogical strategy in learning the patterns of knowing in nursing; to identify the dimensions of each pattern valued in the analysis of pieces of art. Method Descriptive mixed study. Data collection used a questionnaire applied to 31 nursing students. Results In the analysis of the students' discourse, it was expli...
متن کاملAutonomy of elder patients suffering from cancer: the right to know about their diagnoses
The growth of the senior population in Brazil and in the world poses new challenges for the health professionals, and among those, the increase of the number of chronic diseases, especially cancer. Within the practice of his/her work, the nurse faces countless situations that generate dilemmas and ethical questions that involve the patient and/or his/her family. We aim at contemplating the seni...
متن کاملLegal concepts for nurses
Nursing is an activity based on skilled, emotional, ethical and lawful practice and any minor negligence bad or unknowledgeable practice may cause the patient and nurse physical and lawful problems. The best way to prevent problems is that nurses be aware of professional standards of care and related rules. In attention to the importance of knowing the concepts of law, it is suggested that such...
متن کامل