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Residents' rights and nurses' ethics in the Australian nursing home
1School of Nursing, The University of Queensland, Ipswich, Queensland 4102, Australia. a.tuckett@uq.edu.au
Background:
This article is derived from a more extensive review of literature for a qualitative study that explored the meaning of truth-telling within the care provider--aged resident dyad in high-level (nursing home) aged care.
Aim:
This paper describes through the literature, work practices and the culture of the nursing home as promoting instrumental care, therefore prioritizing doing-for over being-with. The nursing home, starved of time and staff, silences and isolates the aged care resident in an environment that is, arguably, rarely homelike.
Conclusion:
The appraisal of the nursing home offered here means that a number of residents' rights are at risk and care providers (notably registered nurses and the personal care assistants) risk contravening the Code of Ethics for Nurses in Australia.
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