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How Community Nurses Manage Ethical Conflicts: A Grounded Theory Study.
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- Perceiving Ethical Discomfort Triggered by Situations that Resist Meaning in Community Mental Health Settings: A Grounded Theory.Community mental health journal · 2025Article
- Digital ethical reflection in long-term care: Leaders' expectations.Nursing ethics · 2024Article
- Ethical conflicts experienced by community nurses: A qualitative study.Nursing ethics · 2024Article
- Toward a Value-Based Therapy Recommendation Model.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Ethical Problems and Moral Distress in Primary Care: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
Research is limited on how nurses in community settings manage ethical conflicts. To address this gap, we conducted a study to uncover the process of behaviors enacted by community nurses when experiencing ethical conflicts. Guided by Glaserian grounded theory, we developed a theoretical model (Moral Compassing) that enables us to explain the process how 24 community nurses managed challenging ethical situations. We discovered that the main concern with which nurses wrestle is moral uncertainty ("Should I be addressing what I think is a moral problem?"). Moral Compassing comprises processes that resolve this main concern by providing community nurses with the means to attain the moral agency necessary to decide to act or to decide not to act. The processes are
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