Ethical reasoning in nurses’ and physicians’ stories about care episodes
Journal of Advanced NursingPublished 1 September 1992
Giggi Udén, Astrid Norberg, Anders Lindseth, Venke Marhaug
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It turned out that nurses and physicians related different kinds of stories, and seemed to use different kind of ethical reasoning in these stories.
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Twenty-three registered nurses and nine physicians reported 43 stories about ethically difficult care situations. Themes in nurses' and physicians' stories were described by means of narrative ethical theory. It turned out that nurses and physicians related different kinds of stories. They also seemed to use different kinds of ethical reasoning. This result was interpreted as mainly connected to the fact that the two professions have different tasks to accomplish and are trained in disciplines with different foci; nursing and medicine. The need to find a common frame story covering the two professional stories was stressed.
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