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- Title
Residents' rights and nurses' ethics in the Australian nursing home.
- Authors
Tuckett AG
- Abstract
BACKGROUND: This article is derived from a more extensive review of literature for a qualitative study that explored the meaning of truth-telling within the care provider--aged resident dyad in high-level (nursing home) aged care. AIM: This paper describes through the literature, work practices and the culture of the nursing home as promoting instrumental care, therefore prioritizing doing-for over being-with. The nursing home, starved of time and staff, silences and isolates the aged care resident in an environment that is, arguably, rarely homelike. CONCLUSION: The appraisal of the nursing home offered here means that a number of residents' rights are at risk and care providers (notably registered nurses and the personal care assistants) risk contravening the Code of Ethics for Nurses in Australia.
- Publication
International Nursing Review, 2005, Vol 52, Issue 3, p219
- ISSN
0020-8132
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1466-7657.2005.00429.x