Ethical concerns and dilemmas of Finnish and Dutch health professionals

Background:Healthcare professionals encounter ethical dilemmas and concerns in their practice. More research is needed to understand these ethical problems and to know how to educate professionals to respond to them.Research objective:To describe ethical dilemmas and concerns at work from the perspe...

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Authors: Hopia, Hanna (Author) ; Lottes, Ilsa (Author) ; Kanne, Mariël (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2016
In: Nursing ethics
Year: 2016, Volume: 23, Issue: 6, Pages: 659-673
Further subjects:B professional ethics education
B Ethical Concern
B Content Analysis
B healthcare master’s degree
B Ethical Dilemma
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