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- Flexible work hours like 12-hour shifts are increasingly popular for nurses, raising ethical questions about their impact on patient safety.
- Research indicates that these extended shifts could pose risks to patient health, making the ethical implications significant.
- The author applies a multistep ethical decision-making model, focusing on procedural justice, to analyze whether 12-hour shifts are a responsible choice for nursing professionals.
Article Abstract
Flexible work hours, including 12-hour shifts, have become a common scheduling option for nurses. The author explores whether 12-hour shifts are an ethical scheduling option for nurses because recent research suggests that 12-hour shifts are a potential hazard to patients. A multistep model for ethical decision making, reflecting the concept of procedural justice, is used to examine this issue.
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