Intrusion Into Patient Privacy: A Moral Concern in the Home Care of Persons With Chronic Mental Illness
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Magnusson, Annabella
Lutzen, Kim
Bibliographic Citation
Nursing Ethics. 1999 Sep; 6(5): 399-410.
Abstract
The aim of this study was to identify and analyse ethical decision making in the home care of persons with long-term mental illness. A focus was placed on how health care workers interpret and deal with the principle of autonomy in actual situations. Three focus groups involving mental health nurses who were experienced in the home care of persons with chronic mental illness were conducted in order to stimulate an interactive dialogue on this topic. A constant comparative analysis of the transcribed audiotaped sessions identified a central theme that concerned the moral symbolic meaning of 'home'. This reflected the health care workers' conflict between their professional role and their moral role, which they perceived as unclear.
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1999-09Subject
Aggression; Attitudes; Autonomy; Chronically Ill; Coercion; Community Services; Competence; Dangerousness; Decision Making; Deinstitutionalized Persons; Ethics; Focus Groups; Health; Health Care; Health Personnel; Home Care; Illness; Mental Health; Mental Illness; Nurse Patient Relationship; Nurse's Role; Nurses; Nursing Ethics; Nursing Research; Paternalism; Privacy; Professional Role; Research; Social Interaction; Survey; Trust;
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Intrusion Into Patient Privacy: A Moral Concern in the Home Care of Persons With Chronic Mental Illness
Magnusson, Annabella; Lutzen, Kim (1999)