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Dedication Foreword Preface I: Caring and the Discipline of Nursing II: Analyzing the Concept of Caring III: Theoretical Perspectives on Caring 6: Caring—An Essential Human Need 7: Nursing: The Philosophy and Science of Caring 8: Foundations of Humanistic Nursing 9: Caring: The Human Mode of Being 10: New Dimensions of Human Caring Theory 11: Caring Science in a New Key 12: Five Basic Modes of Being With Another 13: Empirical Development of a Middle Range Theory of Caring 14: Nursing as Caring: A Model for Transforming Practice (Chapters 1 and 2) 15: The Theory of Human Caring: Retrospective and Prospective 16: Nursing: The Philosophy and Science of Caring (Revised Edition)
IV: Seminal Research Related to Caring 17: Development of a Theoretically Adequate Description of Caring 18: Important Nurse Caring Behaviors Perceived by Patients With Cancer 19: Noncaring and Caring in the Clinical Setting: Patients’ Descriptions 20: Oncology Nurses’ Versus Cancer Patients’ Perceptions of Nurse Caring Behaviors: A Replication Study 21: The Theory of Bureaucratic Caring for Nursing Practice in the Organizational Culture 22: Caring About–Caring For: Moral Obligations and Work Responsibilities in Intensive Care Nursing
V: Research Designs and Methods for Studying Caring VI: Caring-Based Nursing Practice Models VII: Caring, Health Policy, and the Community VIII: Caring Leadership and Administration 33: The Effects of Care and Economics on Nursing Practice 34: Struggling to Find a Balance: The Paradox Between Caring and Economics 35: Exploration of the Relationship Between Caring and Cost 36: Leading Via Caring–Healing: The Fourfold Way Toward Transformative Leadership 37: Love and Caring: Ethics of Face and Hand—An Invitation to Return to the Heart and Soul of Nursing and Our Deep Humanity
IX: Synthesis and Epilogue
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22: Caring About–Caring For: Moral Obligations and Work Responsibilities in Intensive Care Nursing
Dedication Foreword Preface I: Caring and the Discipline of Nursing II: Analyzing the Concept of Caring III: Theoretical Perspectives on Caring 6: Caring—An Essential Human Need 7: Nursing: The Philosophy and Science of Caring 8: Foundations of Humanistic Nursing 9: Caring: The Human Mode of Being 10: New Dimensions of Human Caring Theory 11: Caring Science in a New Key 12: Five Basic Modes of Being With Another 13: Empirical Development of a Middle Range Theory of Caring 14: Nursing as Caring: A Model for Transforming Practice (Chapters 1 and 2) 15: The Theory of Human Caring: Retrospective and Prospective 16: Nursing: The Philosophy and Science of Caring (Revised Edition)
IV: Seminal Research Related to Caring 17: Development of a Theoretically Adequate Description of Caring 18: Important Nurse Caring Behaviors Perceived by Patients With Cancer 19: Noncaring and Caring in the Clinical Setting: Patients’ Descriptions 20: Oncology Nurses’ Versus Cancer Patients’ Perceptions of Nurse Caring Behaviors: A Replication Study 21: The Theory of Bureaucratic Caring for Nursing Practice in the Organizational Culture 22: Caring About–Caring For: Moral Obligations and Work Responsibilities in Intensive Care Nursing
V: Research Designs and Methods for Studying Caring VI: Caring-Based Nursing Practice Models VII: Caring, Health Policy, and the Community VIII: Caring Leadership and Administration 33: The Effects of Care and Economics on Nursing Practice 34: Struggling to Find a Balance: The Paradox Between Caring and Economics 35: Exploration of the Relationship Between Caring and Cost 36: Leading Via Caring–Healing: The Fourfold Way Toward Transformative Leadership 37: Love and Caring: Ethics of Face and Hand—An Invitation to Return to the Heart and Soul of Nursing and Our Deep Humanity
IX: Synthesis and Epilogue
10.1891/9780826171122.0022
Authors
- Cronqvist, Agneta
- Theorell, Töres
- Burns, Tom
- Lützén, Kim
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This chapter analyzes experiences of moral concern in intensive care nursing from the perspective of relational ethics. One such area is the intensive care unit (ICU) characterized by advanced technology, a high working tempo, and crucial end-of-life decisions for critically ill patients. These aspects of nursing raise ethical questions, particularly which situations concern nurses and what type of moral knowledge is needed to deal with ethical questions. It is well known that caring for critically ill patients in intensive care means encountering situations with an ethical constituent. Caring for is a task-orientated nursing care that is assigned and controlled by “others” and can be considered a moral obligation to fulfill work responsibilities. Wolf framed the rationale for the study in caregivers’ search for quality health care practices and the trend of developing criteria, standards, and protocols to achieve quality outcomes.
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