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Nudging in nursing.

Anne Helene Mortensen¹, Marita Nordhaug¹, Vibeke Lohne¹

¹OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway.

|June 28, 2018

Summary

Nudging, or indirect suggestions, can ethically guide patients toward health goals when aligned with nursing leadership and patient values. This approach moves beyond autonomy alone, focusing on shared recovery and independence.

Area of Science:

Behavioral Science
Medical Ethics
Nursing

Background:

Nudging, a concept from behavioral science, economics, and political theory, involves indirect suggestions to influence decision-making and behavior.
The ethical permissibility of nudging in healthcare is a subject of ongoing debate among medical ethics researchers.
Understanding patient decision-making processes, including rational and pre-rational choices, is crucial for evaluating nudging's role.

Purpose of the Study:

To examine how patient decision-making processes relate to the ethical considerations of nudging in healthcare.
To explore the role of nudging within the nursing project, particularly concerning patient autonomy and leadership.
To argue for nudging as a leadership tool in nursing to guide patients toward health, recovery, and independence.

Keywords:

Leadership nudging nursing paternalism patient autonomy

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Main Methods:

Review of current knowledge on decision-making processes (rational, pre-rational, major, minor).
Analysis of the nursing project and ethical debates surrounding nudging in healthcare.
Application of a nursing leadership perspective to the ethical evaluation of nudging.

Main Results:

Discussing nudging solely based on free will and patient autonomy is insufficient in the healthcare context.
Nudging can be a valuable tool for nurses exhibiting leadership, guiding patients toward shared health goals.
Effective nudging in nursing requires alignment with the nursing project and respect for patients' values and goals.

Conclusions:

Nudging, when framed as nursing leadership, can ethically support patients in achieving health, recovery, and independence.
The application of nudging must be integrated within the broader nursing framework and patient-centered values.
Ethical nudging in nursing necessitates a balance between guiding patients and respecting their individual goals and autonomy.