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Ethical challenges of caring for burn patients: a qualitative study
BACKGROUND: Burn patients are among the most vulnerable groups of patients requiring principled ethical care. Caring for these patients often brings various ethical challenges for the members of the health care teams, especially nurses, which affect the clinical decisions made for these patients. A...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7877012/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33568121 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12910-021-00582-x |
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description | BACKGROUND: Burn patients are among the most vulnerable groups of patients requiring principled ethical care. Caring for these patients often brings various ethical challenges for the members of the health care teams, especially nurses, which affect the clinical decisions made for these patients. A limited number of studies have addressed the ethical challenges of caring for burn patients for the responsible caregivers, so the present study attempted to identify these challenges. The present study aimed to explore the health professionals' experiences of the ethical challenges during caring for burn patients. METHODS: This was a qualitative study with a descriptive, phenomenological design. 22 health professional practiced in public burn centers in Iran who met the inclusion criteria of the study were selected via purposeful sampling to participate in the study from June to August 2019. Data were collected using semi-structured, in-depth interviews with the individuals as well as field notes. Sampling was continued up to the data saturation. Thereafter, the collected data were analyzed using Colaizzi's method. RESULTS: The findings of the study yielded 3 themes, including respect for the patient's privacy, respect for the patient's personal identity, and care challenges, as well as 9 categories. CONCLUSION: The findings of this study showed that the burn patients’ caregivers face some challenges in the domains of maintaining the patient's privacy, respecting the patient’s personal identity, and making the best clinical decision. Thus, providing the cultural, professional, and organizational requirements of meeting the challenges of caring for burn patients can consequently result in the caregivers’ inner peace and the improved performance. |
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spelling | pubmed-78770122021-02-11 Ethical challenges of caring for burn patients: a qualitative study Bijani, Mostafa Mohammadi, Fateme BMC Med Ethics Research Article BACKGROUND: Burn patients are among the most vulnerable groups of patients requiring principled ethical care. Caring for these patients often brings various ethical challenges for the members of the health care teams, especially nurses, which affect the clinical decisions made for these patients. A limited number of studies have addressed the ethical challenges of caring for burn patients for the responsible caregivers, so the present study attempted to identify these challenges. The present study aimed to explore the health professionals' experiences of the ethical challenges during caring for burn patients. METHODS: This was a qualitative study with a descriptive, phenomenological design. 22 health professional practiced in public burn centers in Iran who met the inclusion criteria of the study were selected via purposeful sampling to participate in the study from June to August 2019. Data were collected using semi-structured, in-depth interviews with the individuals as well as field notes. Sampling was continued up to the data saturation. Thereafter, the collected data were analyzed using Colaizzi's method. RESULTS: The findings of the study yielded 3 themes, including respect for the patient's privacy, respect for the patient's personal identity, and care challenges, as well as 9 categories. CONCLUSION: The findings of this study showed that the burn patients’ caregivers face some challenges in the domains of maintaining the patient's privacy, respecting the patient’s personal identity, and making the best clinical decision. Thus, providing the cultural, professional, and organizational requirements of meeting the challenges of caring for burn patients can consequently result in the caregivers’ inner peace and the improved performance. BioMed Central 2021-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7877012/ /pubmed/33568121 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12910-021-00582-x Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Bijani, Mostafa Mohammadi, Fateme Ethical challenges of caring for burn patients: a qualitative study |
title | Ethical challenges of caring for burn patients: a qualitative study |
title_full | Ethical challenges of caring for burn patients: a qualitative study |
title_fullStr | Ethical challenges of caring for burn patients: a qualitative study |
title_full_unstemmed | Ethical challenges of caring for burn patients: a qualitative study |
title_short | Ethical challenges of caring for burn patients: a qualitative study |
title_sort | ethical challenges of caring for burn patients: a qualitative study |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7877012/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33568121 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12910-021-00582-x |
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