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Nurses and whistleblowing: the ethical issues.

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  • 1Senior Lecturer in Health Care, Nursing Unit, School of Health and Community Studies, University of Derby, Derby, England. s.wilmot@derby.ac.uk

Journal of Advanced Nursing
|December 15, 2000
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Nurses face ethical dilemmas with whistleblowing, the exposure of organizational wrongdoing. A deontological approach, prioritizing patient duty over employer duty, offers a framework, but stronger whistleblower protections are needed.

Area of Science:

  • Nursing Ethics
  • Organizational Behavior
  • Public Health Policy

Background:

  • Whistleblowing, the public exposure of organizational wrongdoing, presents significant ethical and practical challenges for nurses.
  • It is viewed as part of a spectrum of employee actions against organizational misconduct.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze the ethical underpinnings of whistleblowing in nursing.
  • To explore the applicability of consequentialist and deontological ethical frameworks to nursing whistleblowing.
  • To examine the conflict of duties faced by nurses and advocate for improved whistleblower protections.

Main Methods:

  • Ethical analysis using consequentialist and deontological perspectives.
  • Discussion of nurse's duties to patients and employers.
Keywords:
Bioethics and Professional Ethics

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  • Examination of the impact of reprisals on whistleblowing.

    • Main Results:

    • Consequentialism alone cannot resolve the harms and responsibilities associated with whistleblowing.
    • Deontology highlights conflicting duties for nurses, but a duty to the patient should take precedence over duty to the employer.
    • The threat of reprisals deters nurses from whistleblowing, necessitating better protection.

    Conclusions:

    • A deontological approach, prioritizing patient welfare, provides a stronger ethical basis for nursing whistleblowing.
    • Existing protections for whistleblowing nurses are inadequate.
    • Government and National Health Service (NHS) intervention is required to implement more robust whistleblower protection measures.