At the outset of an ethnographic inquiry, we navigated national and international resources
to search for theoretical and practical guidance on obtaining parents and children's informed …

The aim of this paper is to assist the novice researcher in the research ethics application
process. The novice researcher in this context refers to any researcher negotiating a …

Struggling to understand ethics? Feeling lost when trying to handle moral dilemmas in
professional practice? Worried about helping patients to make decisions in an ethical way …

This paper makes the case for a pluralist, contextualist view of nursing ethics. In defending
this view, I briefly outline two current perspectives of nursing ethics–the Traditional View and …

Background: Truth-telling toward terminally ill patients is a challenging ethical issue in
healthcare practice. However, there are no existing ethical guidelines or frameworks …

Self‐care, or self‐management, is presented in healthcare policy as a precursor to patient
empowerment and improved patient outcomes. Alternatively, critiques of the self‐care …

Nurses are generally expected to raise concerns when a harm or wrongdoing is committed
against patients. Should their concerns not be adequately addressed, then nurses may take …

The overall aim of this thesis is to describe perception of conscience, stress of conscience
(stress related to troubled conscience) and burnout, to explore their relationships and to …

Aim. The aim of this paper is to report findings from a study investigating nurses' experiences
of strike in one public general hospital in the Republic of Ireland. Background. October 1999 …

Autonomy, and associated respect for patient autonomy, have gained increased prominence
in nursing and healthcare practice in recent years. There is a growing understanding that …