Nursing ethics and its relation with power and work organization.
Difficulties faced in the nursing routine, mainly in hospitals, have been reported without the resulting ethical implications to workers and especially to clients, been sufficiently questioned. The work organization can be the main source of suffering to nursing workers, related to the exercise of power of different actors involved in the health institutions, which can potentially cause multiple problems and distress of ethical order. This study aims to make a critical reflection about some relations between the nursing work organization, power relations and its ethical dimension. Strategies for an ethical performance of nurses and other nursing professionals in the organization of work in the healthcare institutions point to the need of these professionals exercise power in an ethical way.
Lunardi
Valéria Lerch
VL
Department of Nursing, Fundação Federal University of Rio Grande, Brazil. vlunardi@terra.com.br
Lunardi Filho
Wilson Danilo
WD
da Silveira
Rosemary Silva
RS
da Silva
Mara Regina Santos
MR
Dei Svaldi
Jacqueline Sallete
JS
Bulhosa
Michele Salum
MS
D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D009729:Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011209:Power, Psychological; D017009:Professional Autonomy