Storied ethics: conversations in nursing care.
The purpose of this article is to discuss narration of ethical themes in nursing care. The text represents part of the findings of an ethnographic study aimed at description of everyday work on an oncology ward. Nurses on this ward are constantly involved in ethical care issues and narratives are told to share experiences. Of vital importance in ethical decision making is the perpetual creation of a mediating moral world constituted by daily experience. The need for making space in nursing for a continual learning conversation is expressed and in this I include writings of nursing theorists.
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Carola
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Sahlgrenska Academy at Göteborg University, Faculty of Health and Caring Sciences, Institute of Nursing, Box 457, 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden. carola.skott@fhs.gu.se
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003142:Communication; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003657:Decision Making; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D005260:Female; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D033262:Narration; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics*; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000941:ethics* / Q000523:psychology*; D009742:Nursing Theory; D009859:Oncology Nursing / Q000941:ethics* / Q000379:methods*; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D012929:Psychological Distance; D013548:Sweden