The attitudes of nurses from an intensive care unit in the face of errors: an approach in light of bioethics

Authors

  • Rita de Cássia Pires Coli Centro Universitário São Camilo
  • Marcio Fabri dos Anjos Centro Universitário São Camilo
  • Luciane Lucio Pereira Centro Universitário São Camilo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-11692010000300005

Keywords:

Medical Errors, Bioethics, Nursing Care/Ethics, Social Responsibility, vulnerability

Abstract

This study analyzed the attitudes of nurses concerning the occurrence of errors in nursing procedures carried out in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) based on the bioethics framework. This descriptive study with qualitative approach was carried out with 14 nurses from a private hospital in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Results were analyzed according to Bardins proposal of content analysis. The resulting themes were: acknowledging ones fallibility; acknowledging and reporting errors; hiding errors. The nurses reports are based on considerations through the lens of bioethics: taking responsibility for an error implies acknowledging ones own vulnerabilities; acknowledging an error with responsibility implies ethical conditions in the relationships among those involved; and errors are in the context of a particular environment. This study enables re-thinking nursing practice based on bioethics, resorting to the analysis of errors focusing on the relationships between those involved.

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Published

2010-06-01

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 3 (2010)

Section

Original Articles

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How to Cite

The attitudes of nurses from an intensive care unit in the face of errors: an approach in light of bioethics . (2010). Revista Latino-Americana De Enfermagem, 18(3), 324-330. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-11692010000300005