A case study application of the Integrated Ethical/Clinical Judgment Model.
OBJECTIVE
To discuss diagnostic, therapeutic and ethical reasoning, as linked in the Gordon Murphy Candee and Hiltunen Integrated Clinical Judgment Model in the context of a case study.


METHODS
An interview conducted with a widow who had been her husband's primary hospice caregiver while he was dying at home of lung cancer as well as published books and articles.


RESULTS
Elements of ethical reasoning parties claims and moral basis for claims are revealed in the experiences of one family receiving hospice care.


CONCLUSIONS
The Integrated Clinical Judgment Model has applicability in ethical research and clinical nursing practice.


CONCLUSIONS
Nurses firm grounding in both diagnostic and ethical reasoning will facilitate the application of sound clinical judgment in the provision of optimal hospice nursing care.
Meares
C J
CJ
Department of Nursing, California State University, Bakersfield, USA.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D003657:Decision Making; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D005260:Female; D017051:Hospice Care; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000451:nursing*; D008297:Male; D016294:Models, Nursing; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009736:Nursing Process; D017805:Widowhood / Q000523:psychology*