Marianne Louise Frilund
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Title: Nurse's ethical values in a busy everyday life-illuminated by the theoretical model: The synthesis between ethical values and nursing intensity
Biography
Biography: Marianne Louise Frilund
Abstract
Ethos is a fundamental human value which is visible in words, needs and attitudes. Eriksson state that ethos stands for the good as a potential. Something each nurse has opportunities to choose or refrain. The majority of nurses have an obvious picture about how the daily care together with older people should be designed. However, many nurses expire they lack realistic opportunities to care in accordance with their ethical ideals. Conflict between the ideals and possibilities tended to generate moral stress or conscience stress to caregivers. This in turn affects the patient's care negatively. An important question for the author is whether ethical values have opportunities to be making visible. Are our values and the caring culture been transferred from the caregivers to caregivers or has tradition been cancelled because of other values are sounding increasingly higher? For the daily nursing, the operationalized abstract concepts to concrete phenomena make ethically manners and acts understandable for the nurses. Ethical values and their significance, for the daily care work, was the subject of her thesis. The study ended up with a model she chooses to call the synthesis between ethical values and nursing intensity. The model includes elements of significance to developing ethically responsible care in a stressful everyday life emerge.