Ethical Decision-Making in Occupational Settings

摘要

The purposes of the research were: (1) to identify and develop an inventory of recurrent ethical dilemmas experienced by occupational health nurses, (2) to develop and administer an instrument to measure occupational health nurses' actions responsive to each dilemma, and (3) to determine if specific variables, i.e. type of employment, work experience, educational level, support systems, and previous familiarity with the ethical dilemmas were associated with nurse responses to dilemmas. The ultimate goal of the research was to identify nursing actions beneficial to workers in helping to resolve ethical dilemmas in occupational health.