title: Ethical/moral experiences of oncology nurses.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the ethical/moral situations that oncology nurses report experiencing.
  
  
  METHODS
  Descriptive, exploratory, qualitative.
  
  
  METHODS
  United States.
  
  
  METHODS
  Seventy nurses selected randomly from the Oncology Nursing Society Membership Directory.
  
  
  METHODS
  The participants responded in writing to the following question: Describe an oncology clinical situation in which you experienced ethical/moral questions. Share all the thoughts, perceptions, and feelings you can recall until you have no more to say about the situation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Most of the experiences these oncology nurses reported reflected a care perspective; focused on the moral principles of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, fidelity, and truth telling; and revealed moral themes of suffering, secrets, and struggle.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Oncology nurses in this study experienced ethical/moral situations related to a care perspective rather than a justice perspective, and this information provides a beginning oncology nursing ethics framework.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Oncology nursing preparation should include ethical content based on the actual experiences of oncology nurses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Graduate Nursing Science, California State University, USA.
authors.forename: K F
authors.initials: KF
authors.lastname: O'Connor
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009014:Morals; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009859:Oncology Nursing; D010358:Patient Participation; D011340:Problem Solving; D014481:United States