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Challenges to ethical nursing practice Christine Mitchell 1 1Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School Keyword: 倫理的な看護実践 , 日々の倫理 , 小児看護 , 多文化主義 , 応用看護倫理 , 看護師の立ち位置 , ネオン倫理 , ethical nursing practice , everyday ethics in nursing , pediatric nursing , multiculturalism , applied nursing ethics , nurses in the middle , neon ethics pp.67-78
Published Date 2017/3/20
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 Nurses often see ethics as abstract and academic—not as something directly applicable to their daily work. Nurses frequently find the specialized terms and language of ethics distancing—not descriptive of the ordinary problems working nurses experience or the worries nurses everywhere actually have about whether they are making the right decisions and doing the right things. And, if nurses think about ethics at all, they sometimes think their ethical problems and responsibilities are culturally specific—not the same as ethical problems and responsibilities of nurses around the world. This lecture will first address these challenges to ethical nursing practice:(1)that ethics is abstract, not applicable;(2)that ethics is distant, not descriptive; and(3)that ethics is cultural, not universal. These challenges, however, are simply background to a fourth challenge, which is that bioethics in general, and Nursing Ethics in particular, typically focuses on big, dramatic ethical dilemmas and, by doing so, implies that there are no right answers in ethics. What I will call “Neon Ethics” directs attention to flashy ethical issues, often ones that are exceedingly difficult to resolve, about which reasonable people deeply disagree. I will draw attention instead to “Everyday Ethics,” the kind of ethical problems conscientious nurses face regularly. These might include how to help a patient reshape her self-concept in the face of disability, how to handle tensions between patients and family members, or how to handle medical orders that do not seem right for the patient. Finally, one of the most common challenges to ethical nursing practice, around the world, is the problem nurses describe as being caught in the middle of conflicts between what their patients need, what patients' family members want, what nurse managers and colleagues think nurses ought to do, and what patients' physicians order or expect. This fifth challenge of being the nurse in the middle sounds like a terrible place to be. Actually, the patient is the one most inescapably in the middle, and it is indeed a scary place to be when there is conflict among those who decide what will happen to the patient. Fortunately, the patient has a nurse in the middle with him or her—a nurse to be a steady presence, to advocate, to comfort, to care, and to do the hands-on work day-by-day of assessing and treating the patient's illness and shaping the patient's environment. Perhaps being “the nurse in the middle” is the best (and in some ways the most powerful) place to be when it comes to actually caring for patients.


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電子版ISSN 2434-7361 印刷版ISSN 1883-244X 日本看護倫理学会

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