Everyday Ethics in the Care of Elderly People
| Autor: | Lars Sandman, Edith Andersson, Ingrid Bolmsjö |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Decision Making
MEDLINE Observation Personal autonomy 0603 philosophy ethics and religion 03 medical and health sciences Nursing Ethics Nursing Homes for the Aged Humans Elderly people Aged Aged 80 and over Sweden Important conclusion 030504 nursing Interpretation (philosophy) 06 humanities and the arts Nursing Homes Issues ethics and legal aspects Content analysis Personal Autonomy Female Engineering ethics 060301 applied ethics Nurse-Patient Relations 0305 other medical science Psychology Nursing homes Ethical Analysis Ethical analysis |
| Zdroj: | Nursing Ethics. 13:249-263 |
| ISSN: | 1477-0989 0969-7330 |
| DOI: | 10.1191/0969733006ne875oa |
| Popis: | This article analyses the general ethical milieu in a nursing home for elderly residents and provides a decision-making model for analysing the ethical situations that arise. It considers what it means for the residents to live together and for the staff to be in ethically problematic situations when caring for residents. An interpretative phenomenological approach and Sandman’s ethical model proved useful for this purpose. Systematic observations were carried out and interpretation of the general ethical milieu was summarized as ‘being in the same world without meeting’. Two themes and four subthemes emerged from the analysis. Three different ethical problems were analysed. The outcome of using the decision-making model highlighted the discrepancy between the solutions used and well-founded solutions to these problems. An important conclusion that emerged from this study was the need for a structured tool for reflection. |
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