BACKGROUND: Today's healthcare system requires that nurses have strong medical–
technical competences and the ability to focus on the ethical dimension of care. For nurses …

Background: Many models of patient-physician relationships have been described since a
paternalistic model was postulated in the early 1950s. Among them are the informative …

Background An infant's admission to a neonatal intensive-care unit (NICU) inevitably causes
the parents emotional stress. Communication between parents and NICU staff is an …

Background: A limited number of studies have shown that patient advocacy can be
influenced by both facilitators and barriers which can encourage and discourage nurses to …

Background: Patient advocacy is central to the nursing profession yet a sense of certainty
about the concept, its meaning and its implications for nursing practice remains elusive. Aim …

Objective To examine whether caregiver judgments of infant pain would vary systematically
with different infant caregiver groups and infant age. Methods A total of 123 caregivers (41 …

Objective To describe nurse behaviors that assisted parents to make life-support decisions
for an extremely premature infant before and after the infant's birth. Design Qualitative …

Objective: To increase our understanding of moral distress experienced by neonatal
registered nurses when directly or indirectly involved in the decision-making process of …

The aim of this study was to generate a substantive theory explaining how the staff in a
resource-limited neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of a developing nation manage 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 …