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Ethical problems experienced by oncology nurses

OBJECTIVE: to know the ethical problems experienced by oncology nurses. METHOD: descriptive and exploratory study with a qualitative approach, performed in inpatient units and in chemotherapy out-patients units that provide assistance to oncological patients in two capitals in the South region of Br...

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Autores principales: da Luz, Kely Regina, Vargas, Mara Ambrosina de Oliveira, Schmidtt, Pablo Henrique, Barlem, Edison Luiz Devos, Tomaschewski-Barlem, Jamila Geri, da Rosa, Luciana Martins
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto / Universidade de São Paulo 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4664021/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26626012
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0104-1169.0098.2665
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Schmidtt, Pablo Henrique
Barlem, Edison Luiz Devos
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da Rosa, Luciana Martins
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Vargas, Mara Ambrosina de Oliveira
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description OBJECTIVE: to know the ethical problems experienced by oncology nurses. METHOD: descriptive and exploratory study with a qualitative approach, performed in inpatient units and in chemotherapy out-patients units that provide assistance to oncological patients in two capitals in the South region of Brazil. Eighteen nurses participated in this study, selected by snowball sampling type. For data collection, semi-structured interviews were carried out, which were recorded and transcribed, and then analyzed by thematic analysis. RESULTS: two categories were established: when informing or not becomes a dilemma - showing the main difficulties related to oncological treatment information regarding health staff, health system, and infrastructure; to invest or not - dilemmas related to finitude - showing situations of dilemmas related to pain and confrontation with finitude. CONCLUSION: for the effective confrontation of the ethical problems experienced by oncology nurses to occur, it is important to invest in the training of these professionals, preparing them in an ethical and human way to act as lawyers of the patient with cancer, in a context of dilemmas related mainly to the possibility of finitude.
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spelling pubmed-46640212015-12-11 Ethical problems experienced by oncology nurses da Luz, Kely Regina Vargas, Mara Ambrosina de Oliveira Schmidtt, Pablo Henrique Barlem, Edison Luiz Devos Tomaschewski-Barlem, Jamila Geri da Rosa, Luciana Martins Rev Lat Am Enfermagem Original Articles OBJECTIVE: to know the ethical problems experienced by oncology nurses. METHOD: descriptive and exploratory study with a qualitative approach, performed in inpatient units and in chemotherapy out-patients units that provide assistance to oncological patients in two capitals in the South region of Brazil. Eighteen nurses participated in this study, selected by snowball sampling type. For data collection, semi-structured interviews were carried out, which were recorded and transcribed, and then analyzed by thematic analysis. RESULTS: two categories were established: when informing or not becomes a dilemma - showing the main difficulties related to oncological treatment information regarding health staff, health system, and infrastructure; to invest or not - dilemmas related to finitude - showing situations of dilemmas related to pain and confrontation with finitude. CONCLUSION: for the effective confrontation of the ethical problems experienced by oncology nurses to occur, it is important to invest in the training of these professionals, preparing them in an ethical and human way to act as lawyers of the patient with cancer, in a context of dilemmas related mainly to the possibility of finitude. Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto / Universidade de São Paulo 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4664021/ /pubmed/26626012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0104-1169.0098.2665 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4664021/
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