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Ethical issues identified in nurses´ interprofessional collaboration in clinical practice: a meta-synthesis
- Source :
- Journal of Interprofessional Care. 36:725-734
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2021.
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Abstract
- The aim of this study was to synthesize previous knowledge about ethics in nurses' interprofessional collaboration in clinical practice. Although healthcare professionals have common goals and shared values, ethical conflicts still arise during patient care. We carried out a meta-synthesis of peer-reviewed papers published in any language from 2013-2019, using both electronic searches, with the CINAHL, PubMed, Scopus, and SocINDEX databases, and manual searches. We identified 4,763 papers and selected six qualitative papers, and three theoretical papers, based on predetermined inclusion and exclusion criteria and quality appraisal. The studies came from the USA, Canada, Sweden, Australia, Botswana, and the Netherlands. We found that in ethics studies on nurses' interprofessional collaboration in clinical practice the focus has been on factors that affect how patients receive care. These factors were patients' wishes, whether they were told the truth about their condition, and how different professionals recognized and treated their pain. The focus in the papers we reviewed was on the roles of different professionals during the care process, including ethical conflicts with regard to their aims, commitment, and the balance of power among them and other professions. More research is needed to raise the visibility of how nurses and other professionals recognize, and evaluate, their professional and interprofessional ethics.
- Subjects :
- Meta synthesis
Canada
030504 nursing
Health professionals
Ethical issues
Health Personnel
Interprofessional Relations
education
Australia
Scopus
Nurses
General Medicine
CINAHL
Creating shared value
Clinical Practice
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Nursing
Inclusion and exclusion criteria
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
0305 other medical science
Psychology
Qualitative Research
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14699567 and 13561820
- Volume :
- 36
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Interprofessional Care
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0387b6a0e8f815815524dc808ccdbede