Nurses' ethical practice in caring for elders in selected Texas critical care units (CCUs) and
nursing homes (NHs) was examined. Descriptive data were collected by mail survey from a …

The role of several key players, including nursing staff, is examined. Each player presents
with potentially different ethical perspectives to consider as we look at ethical problem …

BACKGROUND Deaths in long-term care facilities are common and were previously
expected events for a majority of the residents. Residents and families accepted this …

Much has been written about the importance of decision-making in nursing ethics, but few
research studies have been completed which examine nurses' ethical decision-making. In …

The aim of this thematic literature review is to explore nurses' perceptions of ethical issues in
the care of older people. Electronic databases were searched from September 1997 to …

Grace P. Erickson, MPH, MSN, RNC, is an instructor of Community Health Nursing in the
Department of Community and Psychiatric Nursing, School of Nursing, Medical College of …

Within the past thirty years, ethical questions have come to the forefront of nursing practice.
Books on the subject of nursing ethics attest to the fact that nursing ethics as a subject …

This article presents a case study describing and analyzing ethical issues in the care during
the last 1 1 weeks of life of a 101-year-old nursing home resident. The case presented here …

Registered nurses regarded as “experienced and good” in dementia care were interviewed
about the feeding of a severely demented patient who showed refusal‐like feeding …

A comment on this article appears in" Problematic ethical issues of administrators and staffs
today." J Long Term Care Adm. 1992 Summer; 20 (2): 18-9. A comment on this article …