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1Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Advanced Practice Nursing Quarterly
|January 6, 1999
Summary
This column introduces a practice-based bioethics approach for nurses. It emphasizes ethical interactions grounded in patient situations, healthcare settings, and nursing roles for improved patient care.
Area of Science:
- Bioethics
- Nursing Ethics
- Healthcare Practice
Background:
- The column "A Practice-Based Bioethic" is featured in Advanced Practice Nursing Quarterly.
- Ethical considerations are integral to advanced nursing practice.
Purpose of the Study:
- To introduce and define a practice-based bioethics approach.
- To highlight the relevance of this approach in advanced nursing.
Main Methods:
- The approach is derived from real-world clinical situations.
- It considers the patient's specific context, the healthcare environment, and the nurse's professional role.
Main Results:
- Ethical interactions are understood as occurring within a shared awareness between nurse and patient.
- This approach aims for ethical relevance and appropriateness to the clinical encounter.
Conclusions:
- A practice-based bioethics framework offers a grounded approach to ethical decision-making in nursing.
- It enhances the ethical dimension of nurse-patient interactions by rooting them in practice realities.