Nurses' narratives concerning ethically difficult care situations: Interpretation by means of lögstrup's ethics
作者:
G. Åström,
A. Norberg,
L. Jansson,
I. R. Hallberg,
期刊:
Psycho‐Oncology
(WILEY Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 3,
issue 1
页码: 27-34
ISSN:1057-9249
年代: 1994
DOI:10.1002/pon.2960030106
出版商: John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractLögstrup's ethics were used as a theoretical framework when interpreting 18 nurses' narratives about situations where it had been hard to know what was the right and good thing to do for a cancer patient. The phenomenological hermeneutic interpretation focused on (a) the nurses' experiences of sovereign and perverted utterances of life, ethical demands, interdependence and power; and (b) on the nurses' ways of relating to the ethical dimensions of the situation. In narratives about overwhelming care situations, the nurses did not make a conscious interpretation of whether the patients' demands were also the ethical demands of the situation. In these situations there seemed to be distrust and destructive interdependence between the co‐workers and it was seemingly difficult to be moved by the sovereign utterances of life. In narratives about situations which were possible to grasp, the nurses made a conscious effort to interpret the ethical demands of the situation and acted in accordance with their interpretation until a new interpretation was necessary. The interdependence among the co‐workers was used constructively in order to care for the pat
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