title: The private psychiatric hospital scandal: a critical social approach.
abstract: The recent events that transpired in the for-profit psychiatric hospital industry in which hospitals were alleged to engage in practices which ranged from unethical to illegal underscore the importance of examining the contexts of nursing practice. A wide range of environmental factors and unchallenged assumptions may influence the care of clients and may become obstacles to effective and ethical nursing practice. Critical social theory offers nursing a potentially valuable tool from which to illuminate and examine otherwise unexamined aspects of the environment.
authors.affiliation: University of Texas, School of Nursing, Austin.
authors.forename: W K
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Mohr
mesh_terms: D001318:Authoritarianism; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006272:Health Facility Environment; D016304:Hospitals, Private; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008318:Malpractice; D028642:Persons with Psychiatric Disorders; D028681:Moral Obligations; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D011209:Power, Psychological; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D028743:Professional Misconduct; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012942:Social Sciences