Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

The Perioperative Nurse‘s Role as Moral Agent

  • Published:
HEC Forum Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

REFERENCES

  1. Ferretti JR. Medical malpractice: Wrongful removal of bladder (Verdicts and Settlements column). Lawyers Weekly USA 1996; (March)11:12.

    Google Scholar 

  2. American Nurses Association. Code for nurses with interpretive statements. Kansas City, MO: ANA; 1985.

    Google Scholar 

  3. American Nurses Association. Guidelines on reporting incomperent, unethical or illegal practices. Washington, D.C.: ANA; 1994.

    Google Scholar 

  4. Carlson-Catalano J. Empowering nurses for professional practice. Nursing Outlook. 1992; 40(3):139–42.

    Google Scholar 

  5. Yarling RR, McElmurry BJ. Rethinking the nurse's role in “do-not-resuscitate” orders: A clinical policy proposal in nursing ethics. Advances in Nursing Science. 1983; 5(4):1–12.

    Google Scholar 

  6. Dougherty CJ, Edwards BJ, Haddad AM. Ethical dilemmas in perioperative nursing. Denver, CO: Association of Operating Room Nurses, Inc; 1990.

    Google Scholar 

  7. Reeder JM. Ethical dilemmas in perioperative nursing practice. Nursing Clinics of North America. 1989; 24(4):999–1007.

    Google Scholar 

  8. Fowler MDM. Chirugy: An ethical commentary on surgical technology and the allocation of surgical resources. Perioperative Nursing Quarterly. 1986; 2(2):35–41.

    Google Scholar 

  9. Georges JM. Ethical issues in perioperative nursing practice. Perioperative Nursing Quarterly. 1986; 2(2)13–19.

    Google Scholar 

  10. Winslow GR. From loyalty to advocacy: A new metaphor for nursing. Hastings Center Report. 1984; 14(3):32–40.

    Google Scholar 

  11. Felter RK, West F. Surgical Nursing. Philadelphia, PA: F.A. Davis Company; 1939.

    Google Scholar 

  12. Robb IH. Nursing ethics: For hospital and private use. Cleveland, OH: E.C. Loeckert; 1900.

    Google Scholar 

  13. Fry ST. Preface to ethics, Part II: Applications in nursing practice. Nursing Clinics of North America. 1989; 24(4):951–53.

    Google Scholar 

  14. Omery A. Values, moral reasoning, and ethics. Nursing Clinics of North America. 1989; 24(2):499–508.

    Google Scholar 

  15. Applegeet M. A pilot sutdy for determining relationships between members of the medical and nursing profession. (Unpublished paper, Teachers College, Columbia University, May 1973). In Kelly LY. Dimensions of Professional Nursing, 3rd ed., New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Company; 1975.

    Google Scholar 

  16. Aroskar MA. Using ethical reasoning to guide clinical decision making. Perioperative Nursing Quarterly. 1986; 2(2):20–26.

    Google Scholar 

  17. Haddad AM, Dougherty CJ. Whistleblowing in the OR: The ethical implications. Today's OR Nurse. 1991; 13(3):30–33.

    Google Scholar 

  18. Dock LL. A Short History of Nursing. New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons; 1920, pp. 340–41.

    Google Scholar 

  19. Starr P. The Social Transformation of American Medicine. New York, NY: Basic Books, Inc; 1982.

    Google Scholar 

  20. Seifert PC. Cardiac Surgery. St. Louis, MO: Mosby; 1994. (Cf. Shumacker, Harris B. The Evolution of Cardic Surgery. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press; 1992.

    Google Scholar 

  21. Operating room nursing: Perioperative role. AORN Journal. 1978; 27(6):1156–75.

    Google Scholar 

  22. Driscoll J. 1949–1957: AORN in retrospect. AORN Journal. 1976; 24(1):140–48.

    Google Scholar 

  23. Aroskar MA. Ethics in the nursing curriculum. Nursing Outlook. 1977; 25:260–64.

    Google Scholar 

  24. Scanlon C. Ethics survey looks at nurses experiences. The American Nurse. 1994; (Nov./Dec.): 22.

  25. Scanlon C. Understanding the moral life. American Nurses Association Center for Ethics and Human Rights Communique. 1995–1996; 4(3):1–3.

    Google Scholar 

  26. AORN Special Committee on Ethics. ANA Code for Nurses with Interpretive Statements — Explications for Perioperative Nursing. Denver, CO: Association of Operating Room Nurses, Inc.; 1994.

    Google Scholar 

  27. Benner P, Tanner CA, Chesla CA. Expertise in Nursing Practice: Caring, clinical judgment, and ethics. New York, NY: Springer Publishing Co.; 1996.

    Google Scholar 

  28. Huston CJ, Marquis B. Ten attitudes and behaviors necessary to overcome powerlessness. Nursing Connections. Washington, D.C.: Hospital Center; 1988; 1(2):39–47.

    Google Scholar 

  29. Erlen JA. Empowering nurses through nursing ethics committees. Orthopaedic Nursing. 1993; 12(2):69–72.

    Google Scholar 

  30. Edwards BJ, Haddad AM. Establishing a nursing bioethics committee. Journal of Nursing Management. 1988; 18(3):30–33.

    Google Scholar 

  31. Edwards BS. Attending an ethics committee meeting (Ethical dilemmas column). American Journal of Nursing. 1996; 96(3):62–64.

    Google Scholar 

  32. DeJoseph JF. Creating a nursing ethics committee. Perioperative Nursing Quarterly. 1986; 2(2):42–46.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Cardiac Surgery, Arlington Hospital , Arlington, VA

    Patricia C. Seifert

  2. Alexandria Hospital , Alexandria, VA

    Patricia C. Seifert

Authors
  1. Patricia C. Seifert
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Seifert, P.C. The Perioperative Nurse‘s Role as Moral Agent. HEC Forum 9, 36–49 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008817413130

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008817413130

Keywords

Search

Navigation