What is it about?
This study was aimed at determining the frequency, degree, level of exposure, and type of ethical conflict among nurses working in the intensive care units.
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Why is it important?
Ethical conflict is a barrier to decision-making process and is a problem derived from ethical responsibilities that nurses assume with care. Intensive care unit nurses are potentially exposed to this phenomenon. A deep study of the phenomenon can help prevent and treat it.
Perspectives
The results of this study can be helpful in consolidating and reinforcing those measures that favor low levels of ethical conflict, designing appropriate strategies to prevent ethical conflicts in critical units, formulating clear rules and procedures to deal with the conflict situations, and improving the environmental conditions for nurses and other health professionals as well as the quality of patient care, and the final result would be more professional adherence to the ethical standards. Writing this article was a great pleasure as it has co-authors with whom I have had long standing collaborations.
Professor Foroozan Atashzadeh-Shoorideh
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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This page is a summary of: Ethical conflict among nurses working in the intensive care units, Nursing Ethics, October 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0969733018796686.
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