Lessons learned from nurses’ requests for ethics consultation: Why did they call and what did they value?

Background:An ongoing challenge for clinical ethics consultation is learning how colleagues in other healthcare professions understand, make use of, and evaluate clinical ethics consultation services.Aim:In pursuing such knowledge as part of clinical ethics consultation service quality assessment, c...

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Authors: Bartlett, Virginia L (Author) ; Finder, Stuart G (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2018
In: Nursing ethics
Year: 2018, Volume: 25, Issue: 5, Pages: 601-617
Further subjects:B Qualitative Analysis
B ethical climate of organizations / moral
B management / ethics and leadership
B Professional Ethics
B clinical ethics
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