Am I Still Ethical? the socially-mediated process of nurses’ moral identity

2002 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 623-635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gweneth A Hartrick Doane
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Unpublished Research

In a recent, currently unpublished, research project that sought to examine the meaning and enactment of ethical nursing practice across a variety of clinical settings, the significance of moral identity was highlighted. This article describes the findings and illuminates how the moral identities of the nurse participants arose and evolved as they navigated their way through the contextual and systemic forces that shaped the moral situations of their practice. The study revealed the socially-mediated process of identity development and the narrative, dialogical, relational and contextual nature of nurses’ moral identities.

Socializing for Authentic Caring Engagement in Nursing Practice: Nursing Student Moral Development in Preceptorship

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Vihos ◽  
Florence Myrick ◽  
Olive Yonge
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Moral Development ◽  
Nursing Student ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Patient’S Experience ◽  
Authentic Caring

Background The purpose of this study was to explore the basic psychosocial process of undergraduate nursing student moral development in clinical preceptorship. Method A grounded theory approach was used to explore the process within the context of clinical practice and the student–preceptor–faculty member relationship. Results Socializing for authentic caring engagement in nursing practice emerged from the data as the basic psychosocial process of nursing student moral development in preceptorship. This process included four key categories: (a) distinguishing nursing and moral identity in practice, (b) learning to recognize the patient’s experience, (c) identifying moral issues in practice and creating meaning of practice encounters, and (d) becoming an advocate and reconciling moral issues in practice. Conclusion Findings emerging from this study illustrate the processes of how nursing students work through moral issues and the role of faculty and preceptors in engaging students with moral encounters in the context of preceptorship.

DNP Residency: A Model for the Clinical Doctorate

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-85
Author(s):  
Judy Honig ◽  
Janice Smolowitz
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Clinical Practicum ◽  
Doctor Of Nursing Practice ◽  
Delivery Of Care ◽  
Clinical Doctorate ◽  
Over Time

The doctor of nursing practice clinical residency is a key component of doctoral nursing education that combines clinical practicum with scholarly reading and seminars to provide an in-depth experience for students. During the residency students integrate and synthesize knowledge by demonstrating competency in an area of nursing practice and completing a scholarly project. This article describes a doctor of nursing practice residency for students whose focus is the delivery of care to a panel of patients across clinical settings over time.

Ethical vulnerabilities in nursing history: Conflicting loyalties and the patient as ‘other’

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 590-602 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Deane Lagerwey
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Nursing History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ethical Approaches

The purpose of this article is to explore enduring ethical vulnerabilities of the nursing profession as illustrated in historical chapters of nursing’s past. It describes these events, then explores two ethical vulnerabilities in depth: conflicting loyalties and duties, and relationships with patients as ‘other’. The article concludes with suggestions for more ethical approaches to the other in current nursing practice. The past may be one of the most fruitful sites for examining enduring ethical vulnerabilities of the nursing profession. First of all, professional identity, which includes moral identity, comes in part from knowledge of the nursing profession’s past. Second, looking to the past to understand better how events and ideologies have brought vulnerabilities to the fore raises questions about ethical nursing practice today

Autobiography, Mediated Action, and the Development of Moral Identity

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark B. Tappan
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Nazi Party ◽  
Mediated Action ◽  
Childhood And Youth ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Identity Continuity ◽  
The Relationship

This paper explores a sociocultural approach to the development of moral identity, by considering the recently published autobiography of Ingo Hasselbach. Hasselbach, the founder (in 1991) of the National Alternative neo-Nazi party in East Germany, writes about his childhood and youth, how and why he embraced the neo-Nazi perspective, and how and why he ultimately repudiated the movement that he had helped to create. The analysis of Hasselbach’s story employs a “mediated action” approach to identity formation (Penuel & Wertsch, 1995; Wertsch, 1998). Such an approach entails taking human action as the starting point for the study of identity development, and understanding that mediated action, rather than an inner sense of identity, continuity, or sameness, provides the primary unit of analysis. In bringing a sociocultural perspective to bear on Hasselbach’s autobiographical narrative, this paper thus highlights the connections that emerge in his autobiography between his changing/developing sense of moral identity and his moral actions and interactions in the world. In so doing, it explores and explicates the relationship between Hasselbach’s moral identity and the sociocultural context in which it develops.

scholarly journals The Human Cost of 'Caring' Care for Registered Nurses in Clinical Practice

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Sylvia Margaret Shona Blair
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Registered Nurses ◽  
Public Hospital ◽  
Elderly Population ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Health Reforms ◽  
The Core ◽  
Human Cost ◽  
The Impact

<p>This research utilised a focus group methodology to discover what nurses in clinical practice considered 'caring' care meant for them. Six registered nurses volunteered to participate in the project. They practised over a variety of clinical settings within a public hospital, which provided both acute and elective surgical and medical services to the community, including an extensive elderly population.  Taking these important 'caring' care statements, I then explored with the group what factors in their work environment hindered or enhanced their identified 'caring' care. New Zealand nurses identified similar themes and concepts important to their 'caring' in clinical practice as did their overseas counterparts.  This study also highlighted the impact the health reforms had on individual clinical practice at this hospital. The effects of the institutional changes in response to the health reforms were far reaching at both a personal and professional level.  Caring is an important concept found in nursing practice. It has been widely documented by nurse scholars, researchers and nurse authors that care is at the core of nursing practice. Some have even referred to care as being the heart of nursing. The findings from the present research indicates the importance nurses place on caring in their day to day encounters with patients. It also demonstrates how nurses express their care and their perceptions of the importance care has in their clinical practice.</p>

Moral Identity Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 127-144
Author(s):  
Sam A. Hardy ◽  
Tobias Krettenauer ◽  
Natasha Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Life Span ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Ecological Model ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Future Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
Media And Religion ◽  
Model Family

Moral identity theory and research emerged in the early 1980s and the field has grown ever since. In this chapter, the authors begin by reviewing the history of work on moral identity. They provide a framework for thinking about moral identity grounded in McAdams’s three levels of personality: traits, characteristic adaptations, and live narratives. Then the authors review research on moral identity development across the life span at these three levels of personality. Next, they review work on contexts of moral identity development, based on Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model: family, peers, schools, communities, cultures, media, and religion. Last, the authors outline five questions for future research.

Evaluation of an action research project in ophthalmic nursing practice

2005 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Waterman ◽  
Rona Harker ◽  
Heather MacDonald ◽  
Rita McLaughlan ◽  
Christine Waterman
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Research Project

Cherie Kartchner Woodworth’s Research and Publications

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 217-233
Author(s):  
Charles J. Halperin
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Pastoral Nomads ◽  
Senior Scholar ◽  
Review Articles ◽  
Oral Presentations ◽  
Conference Papers ◽  
Unpublished Research

Abstract Cherie Woodworth’s impressive publications included articles, review articles, and book reviews; her unpublished research consisted of numerous conference papers and oral presentations. Cherie’s dissertation and articles concerned fifteenth-century Muscovite history, especially princely clans. Her book reviews encompassed a wide variety of fields and disciplines. Her final research project addressed the interaction of steppe pastoral nomads with their sedentary neighbors. The maturity of mind, originality, and soundness of judgment demonstrated in her research and publications attest to a quality of mind one would expect to find only in a superior senior scholar.

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