title: Key ethical issues encountered in healthcare organizations: perceptions of nurse executives.
abstract: By the very nature of their daily work, nurse executives find themselves at the crossroads of the changing and challenging healthcare ethical environment in which clinical ethics and organizational ethics often collide. The authors present the findings of a survey of members of American Organization of Nurse Executives aimed at more clearly identifying the key ethical issues encountered in healthcare organizations by their nurse executives and others. Implications of the findings for healthcare organizations and their managers also are discussed briefly.
authors.affiliation: College of Business and Public Administration, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa 50311, USA. robert.cooper@drake.edu
authors.forename: Robert W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Cooper
authors.forename: Garry L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Frank
authors.forename: Carol Ann
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Gouty
authors.forename: Mary C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Hansen
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D004989:Ethics / Q000145:classification; D004991:Ethics, Institutional; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012956:Societies, Nursing; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States