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'Ethics Between the Lines' - Nurses' Experiences of Ethical Challenges in Long-Term Care.
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- Identifying Emerging Drivers and Interventions to Reduce Vaccine Hesitancy Among Long-Term Care Facility Nursing Staff.The Gerontologist · 2025Article
- Ethical issues in palliative care: nursing and quality of life.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- Putting patients first: when home-based care staff prioritise loyalty to patients above the system and themselves. An ethnographic study.BMC medical ethics · 2024Article
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- Meanings of troubled conscience in nursing homes: nurses' lived experience.Nursing ethics · 2023Article
- Prevalence, type, and reasons for missed nursing care in municipality health care in Sweden - A cross sectional study.BMC nursing · 2022Article
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Abstract
In long-term care, ethical challenges are becoming increasingly apparent as the number of older patients with complex care needs increases, in parallel with growing demands for more cost-efficient care. Scarce resources, cross-pressure and value conflicts are associated with missed care, moral stress and nurses wanting to leave the profession. Through five focus group interviews, this study aimed to explore how nurses working in nursing homes and homecare services perceive, experience and manage ethical challenges in everyday work. Content analysis revealed three main themes: striving to do good; failing and being let down and getting rid of frustrations and learning from experiences. The nurses' morality was mainly expressed through emotions that arose in specific situations. Dedicated spaces for ethical reflection and leaders who recognize that organizational conditions affect the individual nurse-patient relationship are required. Facilitating ethical reflection is an important leadership responsibility, which may also require leaders to actually participate.
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