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  1. The Diversity Compass: a clinical ethics support instrument for dialogues on diversity in healthcare organizations.Charlotte Kröger, Bert Molewijk, Maaike Muntinga & Suzanne Metselaar - 2024 - BMC Medical Ethics 25 (1):1-14.
    Background Increasing social pluralism adds to the already existing variety of heterogeneous moral perspectives on good care, health, and quality of life. Pluralism in social identities is also connected to health and care disparities for minoritized patient (i.e. care receiver) populations, and to specific diversity-related moral challenges of healthcare professionals and organizations that aim to deliver diversity-responsive care in an inclusive work environment. Clinical ethics support (CES) services and instruments may help with adequately responding to these diversity-related moral challenges. However, (...)
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  • Sharing decisions amid uncertainties: a qualitative interview study of healthcare professionals’ ethical challenges and norms regarding decision-making in gender-affirming medical care.Bert C. Molewijk, Fijgje de Boer, Baudewijntje P. C. Kreukels, Marijke A. Bremmer, Casper Martens & Karl Gerritse - 2022 - BMC Medical Ethics 23 (1):1-17.
    BackgroundIn gender-affirming medical care (GAMC), ethical challenges in decision-making are ubiquitous. These challenges are becoming more pressing due to exponentially increasing referrals, politico-legal contestation, and divergent normative views regarding decisional roles and models. Little is known, however, about what ethical challenges related to decision-making healthcare professionals (HCPs) themselves face in their daily work in GAMC and how these relate to, for example, the subjective nature of Gender Incongruence (GI), the multidisciplinary character of GAMC and the role HCPs play in assessing (...)
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  • Moral distress and positive experiences of ICU staff during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned.Mark L. van Zuylen, Janine C. de Snoo-Trimp, Suzanne Metselaar, Dave A. Dongelmans & Bert Molewijk - 2023 - BMC Medical Ethics 24 (1):1-17.
    Background The COVID-19 pandemic causes moral challenges and moral distress for healthcare professionals and, due to an increased work load, reduces time and opportunities for clinical ethics support services. Nevertheless, healthcare professionals could also identify essential elements to maintain or change in the future, as moral distress and moral challenges can indicate opportunities to strengthen moral resilience of healthcare professionals and organisations. This study describes 1) the experienced moral distress, challenges and ethical climate concerning end-of-life care of Intensive Care Unit (...)
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  • Ethical challenges experienced by prehospital emergency personnel: a practice-based model of analysis.Lotte Huniche, Søren Mikkelsen, Louise Milling & Henriette Bruun - 2022 - BMC Medical Ethics 23 (1):1-14.
    AbstractBackgroundEthical challenges constitute an inseparable part of daily decision-making processes in all areas of healthcare. In prehospital emergency medicine, decision-making commonly takes place in everyday life, under time pressure, with limited information about a patient and with few possibilities of consultation with colleagues. This paper explores the ethical challenges experienced by prehospital emergency personnel. MethodsThe study was grounded in the tradition of action research related to interventions in health care. Ethical challenges were explored in three focus groups, each attended by (...)
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  • Nurses’ adherence to ethical principles – A qualitative study.Valery Wong, Norasyikin Hassan, Yoke Ping Wong, Sophia Yen Nee Chua, Shaliza Abdul Rahman, Mas Linda Mohamad & Siriwan Lim - forthcoming - Nursing Ethics.
    Background Nursing is regulated by a set of professional standards. Whilst many forms of ethics apply to nursing, the biomedical ethical framework is common, involving autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice. In healthcare, nurses often encounter ethical dilemmas that require them to navigate conflicting ethical principles. However, how nurses adhere to these principles in such situations is unclear. Research Aim To explore how registered nurses adhere to ethical principles when dealing with ethical dilemmas at work. Research Design A qualitative descriptive study (...)
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  • (1 other version)Staff’s normative attitudes towards coercion: the role of moral doubt and professional context—a cross-sectional survey study.Bert Molewijk, Almar Kok, Tonje Husum, Reidar Pedersen & Olaf Aasland - 2017 - BMC Medical Ethics 18 (1):37.
    The use of coercion is morally problematic and requires an ongoing critical reflection. We wondered if not knowing or being uncertain whether coercion is morally right or justified is related to professionals’ normative attitudes regarding the use of coercion. This paper describes an explorative statistical analysis based on a cross-sectional survey across seven wards in three Norwegian mental health care institutions. Descriptive analyses showed that in general the 379 respondents a) were not so sure whether coercion should be seen as (...)
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  • The particular relevance of clinical ethics support in psychiatry: Concepts, research, and experiences.Bert Molewijk & Stella Reiter-Theil - 2016 - Clinical Ethics 11 (2-3):43-44.
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  • The significance of ethics reflection groups in mental health care: a focus group study among health care professionals.Marit Helene Hem, Bert Molewijk, Elisabeth Gjerberg, Lillian Lillemoen & Reidar Pedersen - 2018 - BMC Medical Ethics 19 (1):54.
    Professionals within the mental health services face many ethical dilemmas and challenging situations regarding the use of coercion. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the significance of participating in systematic ethics reflection groups focusing on ethical challenges related to coercion. In 2013 and 2014, 20 focus group interviews with 127 participants were conducted. The interviews were tape recorded and transcribed verbatim. The analysis is inspired by the concept of ‘bricolage’ which means our approach was inductive. Most participants report (...)
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  • Two years of moral case deliberations on the use of coercion in mental health care: Which ethical challenges are being discussed by health care professionals?Bert Molewijk, Ingvild Stokke Engerdahl & Reidar Pedersen - 2016 - Clinical Ethics 11 (2-3):87-96.
    Background Seven wards from three Norwegian mental health care institutions participated in a study in which regular ethics reflection groups focusing on coercion had been implemented and evaluated (2011–2015). This article presents (1) a thematic overview of the ethical challenges identified based on a systematic qualitative analyses of 161 ethics reflection groups and (2) some general observations on these ethical challenges. Results The ethical challenges are divided into four main thematic categories: (1) formal coercion, (2) informal coercion, (3) uncertainty related (...)
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  • Two years of ethics reflection groups about coercion in psychiatry. Measuring variation within employees’ normative attitudes, user involvement and the handling of disagreement.Bert Molewijk, Reidar Pedersen, Almar Kok, Reidun Førde & Olaf Aasland - 2023 - BMC Medical Ethics 24 (1):1-19.
    Background Research on the impact of ethics reflection groups (ERG) (also called moral case deliberations (MCD)) is complex and scarce. Within a larger study, two years of ERG sessions have been used as an intervention to stimulate ethical reflection about the use of coercive measures. We studied changes in: employees’ attitudes regarding the use of coercion, team competence, user involvement, team cooperation and the handling of disagreement in teams. Methods We used panel data in a longitudinal design study to measure (...)
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  • Contribution of moral case deliberations to the Moral Craftmanship of prison staff: A quantitative analysis.Marie Huysentruyt, A. I. Schaap, M. M. Stolper, M. Snijdewind, H. C. W. de Vet & A. C. Molewijk - 2023 - International Journal of Ethics Education 8 (2):389-405.
    This study explores the impact of participation in a series of moral case deliberations (MCD) on the moral craftsmanship (MCS) of Dutch prison staff. Between 2017–2020, ten MCDs per team were implemented in three prisons (i.e., intervention group). In three other prisons (i.e., control group) no MCDs were implemented. We compared the intervention and control group using a self-developed questionnaire, administered before (pre-measurement) and after the series of MCDs (post-measurement). Results After the MCDs, participants scored significantly higher on 7 of (...)
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  • (1 other version)Staff’s normative attitudes towards coercion: the role of moral doubt and professional context—a cross-sectional survey study.Almar Kok Bert Molewijk, Reidar Pedersen Tonje Husum & Olaf Aasland - forthcoming - Most Recent Articles: Bmc Medical Ethics.
    The use of coercion is morally problematic and requires an ongoing critical reflection. We wondered if not knowing or being uncertain whether coercion is morally right or justified (i.e. experiencing moral dou...
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  • Inspectors’ ethical challenges in health care regulation: a pilot study.W. Seekles, G. Widdershoven, P. Robben, G. van Dalfsen & B. Molewijk - 2017 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 20 (3):311-320.
    There is an increasing body of research on what kind of ethical challenges health care professionals experience regarding the quality of care. In the Netherlands the Dutch Health Care Inspectorate is responsible for monitoring and regulating the quality of health care. No research exists on what kind of ethical challenges inspectors experience during the regulation process itself. In a pilot study we used moral case deliberation as method in order to reflect upon inspectors’ ethical challenges. The objective of this paper (...)
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  • Trends and ethical issues in nursing during disasters: A systematic review.Yayu N. Fithriyyah, Atikah K. Alda & Haryani Haryani - 2023 - Nursing Ethics 30 (6):753-775.
    Background During a disaster, nurses face complex ethical challenges because of risky situations. It is necessary to identify trends and ethical issues of nurses in disasters to improve the quality of care and impact for nurses. Method This systematic review enrolled in the international registration with PROSPERO: CRD42022350765. We searched the following databases: PubMed, EBSCO MEDLINE, SCOPUS, ProQuest, ScienceDirect, and Sage Pub. The inclusion criteria were developed according to PICO and D; are Population (F): involving nurses; intervention/Exposure (I): disaster, Comparison (...)
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