When Healthcare Professionals Disagree: Finding the Right Balance.

Healthcare disagreements are common, but recognising the causes is essential to reaching a moral consensus. The article describes the challenges associated with resolving the disagreements. Therefore, a systematic and timely team-based discussion, ethics consultation with ethicists and the hospital ethics committee, active participation of all members' discussions, and scheduled debriefings are pragmatic ways to find balance when healthcare professionals disagree.

Managing Aggressive Behaviour in Healthcare: Balancing of Patients and Staff Interests.

The incidence of aggression within healthcare environments has exhibited a discernible rise. As a response, restrictive measures, including restraints, are enforced. Due to the safety and ethical concerns associated with using restraint, de-escalation measures are regarded as the most efficient course of action.

Patient's best interest as viewed by nursing students.

Background: In recent years, patient advocacy has emerged as a prominent concept within healthcare. How nursing students decide what is best for their patients is not well understood.

Objective: The objective is to examine nursing students' views on doing what is best for patients during their clinical experiences and how they seek to establish patient interests when providing care.

Every nursing support matters: Mothers of hospitalised preterm newborns.

Nursing support for mothers whose newborns are admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) has been a subject of interest in nursing practice. The article by Ong et al. acknowledges the salient role of nurses in supporting mothers in the neonatal intensive care unit.

Healthcare Professionals' Ethical Responsibility in COVID-19 Vaccination Decision-Making.

Healthcare professionals' decision about whether to receive COVID-19 vaccination is grounded in fundamental ethical bases. This paper considers some of the ethical responsibilities surrounding vaccination. While healthcare professionals have the right to refuse the vaccine, they are urged to reflect on three key responsibilities in making the decision: i) professional responsibility; ii) social responsibility and iii) personal responsibility within the ethical dimension.

The Ethics of Supporting Bereaved Parents Following Traffic Crash Fatalities.

We recognise that the death of a child is one of the most difficult events a family can experience. The article is based on a tragedy that occurred last year near Gunung Lang in Perak, Malaysia, in which a mother was the only survivor of a road accident in which she lost three young sons. It was reported that the husband, who was not involved in the crash, wanted to tell her about the loss.

Greater accountability in nursing handover.

Nursing handover exemplifies both the nurse's professional ethics and the profession's integrity. The article by Yetti et al. acknowledges the critical role of structure and process in handover implementation.

Healthcare Dilemma Towards Gift Giving by Patients.

Gift giving is generally well-intentioned and graciously accepted to healthcare professionals but it is also one of the concerns that cause an ethical dilemma in health care. Is the gift giving ethically appropriate? Tangible guidance about how healthcare professionals would respond to gift giving is possibly scarce and non-specific. In cases where there is an absence of hospital policy specifying how to treat patients' gifts, healthcare professionals may need to reflect several factors when addressing the dilemmas.

Nurses' view of the nature of the support given to parents in the neonatal intensive care unit.

Background: Most parents of Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) babies often expressed dissatisfaction with the nursing care in NICU because of their unaddressed needs, resulting in emotional strain. This raises an essential question of how NICU nurses provide support for the parents. However, this can be relatively challenging in the NICU setting.

Resilience among nurses working in paediatric wards in Brunei Darussalam: A qualitative study.

Background: Resilience has become highly relevant for nurses working to avoid the negative impact of stress and maximise the positive benefits.

Objective: This study aimed to explore and describe experiences of resilience among nurses when they first started working in paediatric wards.

Methods: A qualitative, interpretive descriptive approach was used to guide the study.

Nephrology nurses' views in giving a dietary recommendation for dialysis patients: An interview study.

Background: Nutrition in dialysis patients plays an essential role in their life. Diet in dialysis patients are catered individually and applied according to the situation of the patients. A dietary recommendation is vital to dialysis patients, and nephrology nurses help patients understand the reasoning behind the dietary restrictions enforced.

Mental health nurses' views of ward readmission: A focus group study in Brunei Darussalam.

Background: Readmission becomes inevitable with the vast development of mental health services worldwide and the challenges faced by mental health services. This readmission is often caused by a relapse from an illness whereby the psychiatric patient needs nursing care.

Objective: This study aimed to explore psychiatric nurses' perceptions of reasons for readmission and nurses' further role in reducing readmission.

Disclosure of Mental Health Status to Employers in a Healthcare Context.

People suffering from mental health conditions are often unwilling to reveal their status and this includes health professionals. They may wrestle with the pros and cons of revealing their health status to their employer in particular as they seek to reconcile personal privacy with professional duty. There is no simple, clear consensus as to whether they have a moral duty to share the information voluntarily or explicitly to share it with the employer.

Be Honest: Individuals' Moral Responsibility within the COVID-19 Context.

We recognise that people lie to health professionals for several reasons. However, these incidents endanger the well-being of the professionals and bring us to the question of whether people have an exclusive moral duty to always profess the truth about their health and other facts, particularly in a pandemic crisis. This review argues that an honest patient is a key to undertaking their roles as health professionals and delivering the best services possible to meet the needs of the patient.

The Ethics of Truth-Telling in Health-Care Settings.

Can a lie be justified if it saves a human life or a community, or if another great evil is avoided? The article proposes that health professionals need not always tell the truth, depending on situation; but, this does not refute the significance of telling the truth. It also elucidates the value of telling the truth, and the challenges for telling the whole truth. Two prominent theories of ethics, Deontological and Consequentialism are deliberated, together with the integration of examples to illustrate main areas of interest.