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Yu-Lun Tsai, Tin Yi1, Hsien-Hsien Chiang2
1National Defense Medical Center; Tri-Service General Hospital.
Nursing Ethics
|July 9, 2021
Summary
Nurses caring for burn victims of the color-dust explosion experienced ethical dilemmas, feeling a strong calling to provide care despite emotional and psychological challenges. Understanding these experiences can improve nurse self-care and patient caregiving.
Area of Science:
- Disaster nursing
- Bioethics
- Qualitative research
Background:
- Healthcare professionals face ethical dilemmas providing holistic care to disaster victims.
- Rapid critical care needs can conflict with complex patient requirements.
- Ethical dilemmas negatively impact nurse well-being and nurse-patient relationships.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore nurses' experiences caring for burn victims from the color-dust explosion.
- To understand the meaning of ethical nurse-patient relationships in disaster contexts.
Main Methods:
- Qualitative descriptive study utilizing a phenomenological approach.
- Purposive sampling of 12 clinical nurses from a Taiwanese medical center.
- In-depth semi-structured interviews analyzed using Colaizzi's method.
Main Results:
- Nurses perceived an ethical responsibility to care for burn victims.
- Key themes included: "the calling must be answered," "the calling provoked my feelings," and "the calling called out my strengths."
- Nurses experienced significant emotional responses to their ethical obligations.
Conclusions:
- Nurses felt ethically bound to care for color-dust explosion burn victims.
- Recognizing nurses' feelings and fostering intersubjective patient-nurse relationships can enhance self-care and caregiving.
- Support for nurses managing ethical dilemmas in disaster nursing is crucial.
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