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Constructing an Ethical Training for Advanced Nursing Practice: An Interactionist and Competency-Based Approach.

Pierre Pariseau-Legault, Melisa Lallier

The Journal of Nursing Education

|June 29, 2016

Summary

This study introduces a training program for advanced practice nurses (APNs) to enhance ethical decision-making skills in complex healthcare environments. The program aims to strengthen moral integrity and improve collaborative abilities within interdisciplinary teams.

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Area of Science:

Nursing Education
Bioethics
Healthcare Policy

Background:

Advanced practice nurses (APNs) operate in complex interdisciplinary and political settings.
These contexts can negatively impact ethical decision-making, moral integrity, and problem-solving capabilities.
Challenges include protecting moral integrity and finding innovative solutions in ethical dilemmas.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a training program for APNs focused on discourse and narrative ethics.
The program aims to enhance APNs' moral integrity, ethical clinical judgment, and deliberative competencies.
To address the influence of interdisciplinary and political contexts on APNs' ethical decision-making.

Main Methods:

A training program was developed, drawing from discourse and narrative ethics principles.
The curriculum was adapted to the specific context of APNs' practice.
Focus on fostering ethical reflection and deliberative skills.

Main Results:

The pedagogical approach demonstrated how an adapted ethical curriculum can address power dynamics in ethical decision-making.
The training effectively exposed and addressed inherent power relationships within ethical decision-making processes.
The curriculum's contextual adaptation was key to its success.

Conclusions:

The proposed pedagogical approach can optimize the development of ethical, reflective, and deliberative competencies in APNs.
This approach has the potential to strengthen APNs' ability to navigate complex ethical situations.
Enhanced competencies can improve patient care and interprofessional collaboration.