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Ethical dilemmas in nursing documentation.

Lone Jørgensen¹, Mette Geil Kollerup²

¹Aalborg University Hospital and Aalborg University, Denmark.

|December 6, 2021

Summary

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Nurses face ethical dilemmas in documentation, balancing patient autonomy with harm prevention and justice with fair resource distribution. Sharing these experiences can improve nursing practice and patient care.

Keywords:

Content analysis dilemma ethics focus groups nursing documentation

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Area of Science:

Nursing Ethics
Healthcare Documentation
Patient Safety

Background:

Nursing documentation is critical for ethical patient care.
Unaddressed ethical dilemmas in documentation pose risks to patients.
Exploration of these dilemmas is necessary to improve practice.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate ethical dilemmas encountered by nurses during discussions about nursing documentation.
To understand the nuances of ethical challenges in clinical record-keeping.

Main Methods:

Qualitative study design utilizing focus groups.
12 registered nurses from a Danish Patient Hotel participated.
Data analyzed using qualitative content analysis.

Main Results:

Ethical dilemmas are prevalent in nurses' conversations about documentation.
Key dilemmas include balancing patient autonomy vs. harm prevention (written vs. oral records).
Another theme is justice and resource allocation (documenting deviations vs. proving practice).

Conclusions:

Dilemmas highlight tensions between patient autonomy, professional responsibility, and trust in electronic health records.
Healthcare system trends may exacerbate these ethical challenges.
Sharing experiences is crucial for addressing dilemmas and improving documentation conditions.