Profesjonsetiske utfordringer i et helseforetak : En kvalitativ studie av sykepleiere ved to psykiatriske akuttposter i et helseforetak

Abstract

"Professional Ethical Challenges within a Health Enterprise” is a qualitative study of 14 nurses and 2 unity heads of two psychiatric emergency posts in a psychiatric health care enterprise. The study explores modern challenges that these nursing personnel meet at work: challenges that require of them an increasing degree of regulation and standardization. The study is defined and limited by two research questions: 1. Which ethical and moral challenges do these nurses experience? 2. Does the implementation of governmental reforms affect the nurses` possibilities for acting as professional nurses, and if so, in what way? A study of ethical challenges should perhaps end on a normative note. I have therefore chosen in the final chapter to undertake an ethical reflection over the data I have gathered and my own experience and presuppositions. The questions I address in this chapter are as follows: - What are the central ethical and moral challenges met by nurses in a hospital psychiatric ward? - What implications do these challenges have for other relevant actors?