Buckley, Alison
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2526-7022
(2025)
The moral maze: navigating the ethical landscape of healthcare.
British Journal of Nursing, 34
(12).
pp. 650-656.
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Abstract
Ethical decision-making pervades many aspects of health and social care practice. All practitioners, regardless of professional affiliation, must reflect on their role as moral agents. There are challenges in developing an ethical awareness of, and response to, the increasingly complex healthcare landscape. A case study of a clinical episode of care is used to illustrate how, while the adoption of an evidence-based, systematic approach can better inform ethical deliberation, conflicting moral obligations frequently add complexity and contradiction to the decision-making process.
Item Type: | Article |
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Journal / Publication Title: | British Journal of Nursing |
Publisher: | MA Healthcare |
ISSN: | 2052-2819 |
Departments: | Institute of Health > Nursing |
Additional Information: | Dr Alison Ruth Buckley, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Nursing, University of Cumbria, UK. |
Depositing User: | Insight Administrator |
SWORD Depositor: | Insight Administrator |
Date Deposited: | 30 Jun 2025 09:26 |
Last Modified: | 30 Jun 2025 09:45 |
URI: | https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/8940 |