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Ethical nursing practice: inquiry-in-action. 2009

Gweneth Hartrick Doane, and Janet Storch, and Bernie Pauly

University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 2Y2. gdoane@uvic.ca

Although the need to theorize ethics within the complexities of nursing practice has been identified within the nursing literature, to date the link between ethics epistemology and specific nursing actions has received limited attention. In particular, little exploration has been carried out to examine how nurses 'know' what is ethical and the knowledge they draw upon to inform their nursing actions within the complexities of their everyday practice. This study describes a participatory inquiry project that focused on developing and articulating an epistemology of ethics while in the midst of everyday nursing work. Epistemological and methodological insights are discussed in light of the challenges nurses face in contemporary healthcare contexts.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007857	Leadership	The function of directing or controlling the actions or attitudes of an individual or group with more or less willing acquiescence of the followers.	Influentials
D009936	Organizational Innovation	Introduction of changes which are new to the organization and are created by management.	Organizational Change,Change, Organizational,Innovation, Organizational,Changes, Organizational,Innovations, Organizational,Organizational Changes,Organizational Innovations
D004993	Ethics, Nursing	The principles of proper professional conduct concerning the rights and duties of nurses themselves, their patients, and their fellow practitioners, as well as their actions in the care of patients and in relations with their families.	Nursing Ethics,Ethic, Nursing,Nursing Ethic
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D017144	Focus Groups	A method of data collection and a QUALITATIVE RESEARCH tool in which a small group of individuals are brought together and allowed to interact in a discussion of their opinions about topics, issues, or questions.	Focus Group,Group, Focus,Groups, Focus
D055812	Community-Based Participatory Research	Collaborative process of research involving researchers and community representatives.	Consumer-Driven Community-Based Research,Community Based Participatory Research,Community-Based Research, Consumer-Driven,Community-Based Researchs, Consumer-Driven,Consumer Driven Community Based Research,Consumer-Driven Community-Based Researchs,Participatory Research, Community-Based,Research, Consumer-Driven Community-Based,Researchs, Consumer-Driven Community-Based
D019359	Knowledge	The body of truths or facts accumulated in the course of time, the cumulated sum of information, its volume and nature, in any civilization, period, or country.	Epistemology
D036301	Qualitative Research	Any type of research that employs nonnumeric information to explore individual or group characteristics, producing findings not arrived at by statistical procedures or other quantitative means. (Qualitative Inquiry: A Dictionary of Terms Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997)	Research, Qualitative