Background: Currently preterm births are the leading causes of newborn deaths and
newborn mortality in developed countries. Infants born prematurely remain vulnerable to …

Background: Neonatal nurses report a great deal of ethical challenges in their everyday
work. Seemingly trivial everyday choices nurses make are no more value-neutral than life …

Ethical issues for the parents of neonates in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) have not
been widely researched. A multistage, qualitative project explored 23 families' perceptions …

Background: Neonatal nurse practitioners have become the frontline staff exposed to a
myriad of ethical issues that arise in the day-to-day environment of the neonatal intensive …

The experiences of 32 families with high-risk infants provide the foundation for a discussion
of the parents' perception of the ethical dimension of intensive newborn care. The families' …

Over the past 30 years, there has been a modest improvement in the survival rates of US
infants. The public health impact of associated economic and technological advances raises …

This article examines the involvement of neonatal nurses in ethical issues, achieved through
a survey of Australian neonatal nurses. The aim was to discover if nurses were involved in …

Advanced technology and changes in the health-care system in recent years have greatly
increased the complexity of nursing practice. This is especially true for the critical care areas …

A case was used to examine ethical challenges in the neonatal intensive care unit from the
perspective of parents and nurses. Discussion focuses on issues of treatment versus …

Background: Paediatric nurses often face complex situations requiring decisions that
sometimes clash with their own values and beliefs, or with the needs of the children they …