RT Article
T1 Patients’ Dignity in a Rehabilitation Ward: ethical challenges for nursing staff
JF Nursing ethics
VO 13
IS 3
SP 236
OP 248
A1 Stabell, Aase
A1 Nåden, Dagfinn
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2006
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1779444494
AB The purpose of this study was to explore the challenges met by nursing staff in a rehabilitation ward. The overall design was qualitative: data were derived from focus interviews with groups of nurses and analyzed from a phenomenological-hermeneutic perspective. The main finding was that challenges emerge on two levels of ethics and rationality: an economic/administrative level and a level of care. An increase in work-load and the changing potential for patient rehabilitation influence the care that nurses can provide in rehabilitating patients, and therefore also affect patients’ feelings of self-worth and dignity. Some patients wish to maintain their independence and autonomy, whereas others seem to ‘lose themselves’. Independence and autonomy are associated with dignity, but their lack is contrary to it.
K1 rehabilitation nursing
K1 Rationality
K1 Dignity
K1 Challenges
DO 10.1191/0969733006ne866oa