Conscientious objection and nurses: Results of an interpretive phenomenological study

Background:While conscientious objection is a well-known phenomenon in normative and bioethical literature, there is a lack of evidence to support an understanding of what it is like for nurses to make a conscientious objection in clinical practice including the meaning this holds for them and the n...

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Authors: Lamb, Christina (Author) ; Babenko-Mould, Yolanda (Author) ; Evans, Marilyn (Author) ; Wong, Carol A (Author) ; Kirkwood, Ken W (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2019
In: Nursing ethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 26, Issue: 5, Pages: 1337-1349
Further subjects:B Phenomenology
B Ethics
B Nursing
B Education
B Conscientious Objection
B Conscience
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