The ethics of compliance: a dialectic

Article Abstract:

Nurses often have problems getting patients to comply with their prescriptions and therapies, but can deal with this problem by listening to their complaints and offering advice. This relationship of nurse and patient is examined according to Gadow's dialectic in terms of ethical immediacy, ethical universalism, and ethical narrative. Ethical immediacy is the acceptance of the therapy as given, ethical universalism is the overall knowledge of good and bad, and ethical narrative is the right of the individual to reject ethical universalism.

Nurse and patient, Nurse-patient relations

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Ethics in the neonatal intensive care unit: parental perceptions at four years postdischarge

Article Abstract:

A study on 23 families that had high-risk infants in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) reveals the parents' perception of the experience four years later. Overall, the parents felt emotional, stressed and separate from their babies. They were concerned about the lack of information given by doctors on coping with their situation, what was wrong with their children, and specifics of their visits. The men were very concerned with the financial aspect of NICU care. Most parents envisioned that their children could be normal in the future.

Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Neonatal intensive care, Parents

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Dirty hands: the underside of marketplace health care

Article Abstract:

Nurses sometimes face the dilemma of being forced into an immoral situation by the health care industry that cheats the patient in the name of cutting costs. These so-called 'dirty hands' cases involve unethical medical practices against the patient that nurses feel forced into for fear of losing their jobs or being named in lawsuits by hospitals. Various cases of this are examined in which patients have sued hospitals or hospitals have sued nurses. This 'dirty hands' problem should be addressed in the research of nursing ethics.

Standards, Health care industry, Patient advocacy

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