Effectiveness of interventions on healthcare professionals' understanding and use of conscience: a systematic review protocol.

Introduction: Conscience is central to moral decision making. In the context of morally pluralistic workplaces today, healthcare professionals' conscience may prompt them to make moral decisions to refrain from providing services they morally disagree with. However, such decisions are largely viewed as contentious, giving rise to polarising arguments for and against healthcare professionals' freedom of conscience.

Nurses' use of conscientious objection and the implications for conscience.

Aims: To explore the meaning of conscience for nurses in the context of conscientious objection (CO) in clinical practice.

Design: Interpretive phenomenology was used to guide this study.

Data Sources: Data were collected from 2016 - 2017 through one-on-one interviews from eight nurses in Ontario.

Conscientious objection and nurses: Results of an interpretive phenomenological study.

Background: While conscientious objection is a well-known phenomenon in normative and bioethical literature, there is a lack of evidence to support an understanding of what it is like for nurses to make a conscientious objection in clinical practice including the meaning this holds for them and the nursing profession.

Research Question: The question guiding this research was: what is the lived experience of conscientious objection for Registered Nurses in Ontario?

Research Design: Interpretive phenomenological methodology was used to gain an in-depth understanding of what it means to be a nurse making a conscientious objection. Purposive sampling with in-depth interview methods was used to collect and then analyze data through an iterative process.

Conscience, conscientious objection, and nursing: A concept analysis.

Background:: Ethical nursing practice is increasingly challenging, and strategies for addressing ethical dilemmas are needed to support nurses' ethical care provision. Conscientious objection is one such strategy for addressing nurses' personal, ethical conflicts, at times associated with conscience. Exploring both conscience and conscientious objection provides understanding regarding their implications for ethical nursing practice, research, and education.

Constructing the meaning of survivor with former pediatric brain tumor patients.

Although the term survivor is frequently used in cancer discourse, the meaning of survivor and how people identify with this term can be difficult to understand. The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore the meaning of the term survivor from the perspective of young adults who have experienced a pediatric brain tumor (PBT). A constructivist grounded theory was utilized in this study with 6 young adults who had a PBT.

A numbered day in the life.

A story of Jim, a man who begins to habituate himself to hospital culture as that outsider known as the patient.