Ethical conflicts with hospitals: The perspective of nurses and physicians

Nurses and physicians may experience ethical conflict when there is a difference between their own values, their professional values or the values of their organization. The distribution of limited health care resources can be a major source of ethical conflict. Relatively few studies have examined...

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Published in:Nursing ethics 2011-11, Vol.18 (6), p.756-766
Main Authors: Gaudine, Alice, LeFort, Sandra M, Lamb, Marianne, Thorne, Linda
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitude of Health Personnel
Canada
Conflict (Psychology)
Content analysis
Doctors
Ethics, Medical
Ethics, Nursing
Hospital Administration - ethics
Hospital-Physician Relations
Hospitals
Humans
Medical Staff, Hospital - ethics
Medical Staff, Hospital - psychology
Moral conflict
Nurse managers
Nurses
Nursing
Nursing Methodology Research
Nursing Staff, Hospital - ethics
Nursing Staff, Hospital - psychology
Professional values
Qualitative Research
Social Values
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Summary:Nurses and physicians may experience ethical conflict when there is a difference between their own values, their professional values or the values of their organization. The distribution of limited health care resources can be a major source of ethical conflict. Relatively few studies have examined nurses' and physicians' ethical conflict with organizations. This study examined the research question ‘What are the organizational ethical conflicts that hospital nurses and physicians experience in their practice?’ We interviewed 34 registered nurses, 10 nurse managers, and 31 physicians as part of a larger study, and asked them to describe their ethical conflicts with organizations. Through content analysis, we identified themes of nurses' and physicians' ethical conflict with organizations and compared the themes for nurses with those for physicians.
ISSN:0969-7330
1477-0989
DOI:10.1177/0969733011401121