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- P S Chally.
- Concordia University, West Suburban College of Nursing, Erie, Austin, Oak Park, IL 60320.
- J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs. 1992 Nov 1; 21 (6): 475-82.
ObjectiveTo gain information about the perspective that neonatal intensive-care unit nurses use to make moral decisions.DesignDescriptive.SettingNeonatal intensive-care unit of a large teaching hospital in the midwestern United States.ParticipantsConvenience sample of 26 female nurses working in a neonatal intensive-care unit.MethodAudiotaped, semistructured interviews and demographic questionnaires.ResultsThe results indicated that most (65%) of the nurses used the care perspective to make moral decisions. A small number (12%) used the justice perspective, and the remaining nurses (23%) used a combined care and justice perspective.ConclusionsBoth the care and justice perspectives were found to be important for understanding how nurses make moral decisions.
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