Ethical Decision-Making in Occupational Settings

Details

• Personal Author:
  Rogers B
• Description:
  A study was conducted to identify and develop an inventory of recurrent ethical dilemmas experienced by occupational health nurses, to develop and administer an instrument to measure occupational health nurse actions responsive to each dilemma, and to determine if specific variables were associated with nurse responses to dilemmas. The goal of this research was to identify nursing actions beneficial to workers in helping to resolve ethical dilemmas in occupational health. Ethical principles which guide decision making include autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence and justice. Issues of autonomy include the right to know and informed consent. Several ethical problems faced by occupational nurses were identified as recurrent problems in this research including substance abuse by superiors or medical screening without informing the person screened of the reasons for this test. The author concludes that knowledge, understanding and application of ethical principles is essential to guide effective decision making. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coping Skills Health Personnel Mental Health Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Attitude Coping-behavior Grants-other Health-care-personnel NIOSH-Grant Occupational-health-nursing Occupational-health-programs
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-102
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00202722
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB92-133305
• Citation:
  School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 1991 Jan; :1-102
• Contact Point Address:
  None University of North Carolina Carrington Hall 214H Chapel Hill, NC 27514
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1991
• NORA Priority Area:
  Other Occupational Concerns ; Grants Other
• Performing Organization:
  University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19880401
• Source Full Name:
  School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
• End Date:
  19910331
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:efeee9df84d71bf75907529a483821013c34dbe4c5ebe82c3d0d619e1b613590ea6100fa510b67b61c31b8ec1579cbf8463f1a5d2dc2bf1134fd0a15ef872bab
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/217813/cdc_217813_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.60 MB ]