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Assessment and Evaluation of the High Risk Neonate: The NICU Network Neurobehavioral Scale
Published on: August 25, 2014
Moral decision making in neonatal intensive care
1Concordia University, West Suburban College of Nursing, Erie, Austin, Oak Park, IL 60320.
Objective:
To gain information about the perspective that neonatal intensive-care unit nurses use to make moral decisions.
Design:
Descriptive.
Setting:
Neonatal intensive-care unit of a large teaching hospital in the midwestern United States.
Participants:
Convenience sample of 26 female nurses working in a neonatal intensive-care unit.
Method:
Audiotaped, semistructured interviews and demographic questionnaires.
Results:
The results indicated that most (65%) of the nurses used the care perspective to make moral decisions. A small number (12%) used the justice perspective, and the remaining nurses (23%) used a combined care and justice perspective.
Conclusions:
Both the care and justice perspectives were found to be important for understanding how nurses make moral decisions.
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