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A hypothetical dilemma on resuscitation of an intensive care patient was presented to nurses at a workshop on ethics of critical care nursing. Nurses responded to separate questionnaires about what a charge nurse should do, and what they themselves would do in relation to ten considerations arising from the dilemma. Nurses were agreed that legal consequences, patient wishes and rights, and physician authority should and would be considered, and that peer influence should not. Nurses were divided in their attitudes to following procedure and personal moral beliefs, and to job risk. The most contentious issues were related to the nurse's role as a decision-making member of the health care team. Implications for regarding nurses as independent decision-makers are discussed.
J A Lawrence, and
E H Farr
November 1990,
Heart & lung : the journal of critical care,
J A Lawrence, and
E H Farr
January 2013,
AACN advanced critical care,
J A Lawrence, and
E H Farr
September 2019,
Zhonghua yi xue za zhi,
J A Lawrence, and
E H Farr
January 1987,
Heart & lung : the journal of critical care,
J A Lawrence, and
E H Farr
February 2009,
Journal of the American Dental Association (1939),
J A Lawrence, and
E H Farr
September 1990,
Heart & lung : the journal of critical care,
J A Lawrence, and
E H Farr
June 2004,
Seminars in pediatric neurology,
J A Lawrence, and
E H Farr
January 1999,
Health care ethics USA : a publication of the Center for Health Care Ethics,
J A Lawrence, and
E H Farr
November 2011,
Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies,
J A Lawrence, and
E H Farr
January 1990,
Dimensions of critical care nursing : DCCN,
