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Caring for sexual assault victim-survivors on college campuses
Published in Rachel E. Lovell, Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling, Sexual Assault Kits and Reforming the Response to Rape, 2023
Candice N. Selwyn, Carolyn Dolan, Sarah Koon-Magnin, Tres Stefurak, Alison Rudd
SANEs should ensure they adhere to the National Protocol for SAMFEs (US Department of Justice Office on Violence against Women, 2013), as well as standards of practice for forensic nursing, professional ethics, and applicable laws. Professional nursing ethics principles include beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, veracity, fidelity, fairness (justice), and accountability for nursing acts (American Nurses Association, 2015). Having policies and procedures in place that adhere to the national protocol and standards of practice for forensic nursing is critical for supporting SANEs in their work on campuses. With clear, concrete guidance, the SANE, MDT, and victim-survivor are all aware of what to expect under typical circumstances.
Alternative Approaches
Published in Robert M. Veatch, Laura K. Guidry-Grimes, The Basics of Bioethics, 2019
Robert M. Veatch, Laura K. Guidry-Grimes
Virtues are simply praiseworthy traits of human character. Although much of bioethics in the past generation has focused on the principles of action rather than the character traits of the one doing the acting, traditional bioethics was concerned as much or more with the character of the healthcare professional. Within the past 30 years a resurgence of interest has occurred in virtue ethics in healthcare (Shelp, 1985; Drane, 1988; Hauerwas, 1981, 2004; Lebacqz, 2004; Campbell, 2005; de Raeve, 2006; Veatch, 2006; Pellegrino, 2006, 2007; Oakley, 2007, 2009; Holland, 2011; Beauchamp and Childress, 2013; Hamric et al., 2015). Much of this interest can be traced back to the work of Alasdair MacIntyre (1981) and others, who rediscovered virtue theory in the early 1980s. Nursing ethics has particularly emphasized the virtues, especially the virtues of compassion, humaneness, and disposition to be caring (about which more will be said later in this chapter).
An Ethic of Care in Nursing
Published in Christine M. Koggel, Joan Orme, Care Ethics, 2019
The purpose of this article is to re-examine an ethic of care as the main ethical approach to nursing practice in light of past and present developments in nursing ethics, and to briefly speculate whether or not it will survive within nursing in the future. Overall, it is maintained throughout that the terms ‘caring’, ‘nursing’ and an ‘ethic of care’ are inextricably linked. This is because, it is argued, professionally focused nursing practices are based predominantly on a well-recognised moral commitment to deliver expert care, and that a care-based ethic is the major factor in the construction and maintenance of these practices. Subsequently, the influences and developments of a caring ethic in nursing are firstly re-examined, and the discussion is supported by evidence from more recent nursing research and theoretical developments. Consideration is given to the philosophical underpinnings of both care theory and caring ethics, and the fundamental importance of caring in nursing, as an interpersonal relationship and as an appropriate ethical response, is made transparent. Finally, an outline of the future possibilities that may affect an ethic of care in nursing is offered.
Global nursing as visualised on the internet: a netnographic analysis of the emerging global paradigm in nursing
Published in Contemporary Nurse, 2018
Jessica Holmgren, Henrik Eriksson, Charlotta Tegnestedt
Registered nurses (from here on referred to as nurses) make up the largest group of healthcare professionals who are greatly affected by globalisation in a variety of ways (Grootjans & Newman, 2013; Keighley, 2012; van den Broek & Groutsis, 2017; Wilson et al., 2016). Within the context of a growing and aging population, along with climate changes, ill health, natural disasters, humanitarian crises, and migration in the wake of war and times of conflict, nurses play a crucial role in alleviating suffering among vulnerable people and groups in society (Holmgren, 2017; Kam Yuet Wong, Wang, Anderson, Seib, & Molasiotis, 2015; Sullivan-Marx & McCauley, 2017). The role of nurses in caring for such vulnerable groups is one of several aspects that have been studied in nursing research as a solution to the challenge of globalisation over time. After a brief review of the nursing research over the last decade, based on the term ‘global nursing’, four main research areas were identified. These areas include: global nursing shortage, global nursing leadership, global nursing education, and global nursing ethics. Based on the brief review of the concept of global nursing as it has been presented over the past ten years, it is possible to highlight some aspects of the body of literature. The main focus seems to be on the first two mentioned areas. However, the concepts of global nursing as educational content and as an ethical approach seem to have emerged more recently. Although there are examples from non-Western research contexts, the majority of the research studies have been conducted in North America, Europe and Australia.
Effects of an Intervention Program for Promoting Ethical Practices Among Pediatric Nurses
Published in Comprehensive Child and Adolescent Nursing, 2019
There are six principles underlying nursing practice ethics: autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, justice, integrity, and loyalty (Fry & Johnstone, 2008; Silva & Ludwick, 1999). Hamada (2012) reported these six principles as indicators of ethical judgment and analyzed how they were implemented during a procedure (i.e., blood sampling for young children). Results revealed it was rare that nursing ethics were not associated with daily care events, and nurses frequently thought about and practiced the best care possible.
Dignity work of older women caring for a husband with dementia at home
Published in Health Care for Women International, 2019
Oscar Tranvåg, Dagfinn Nåden, Ann Gallagher
There is an abundance of literature relating to the meaning and implications of dignity in care. A summary review containing a portion of this was presented in the journal Nursing Ethics in 2013 (Nåden, Råholm, Lohne, & Eriksson, 2013). Before discussing three theoretical perspectives with the potential of casting light upon this topic, we offer some working definitions that have appeared in the nursing literature. In their report, by Baillie, Gallagher, and Wainwright (2008, p. 8) suggested the following: