RT Article
T1 Justifying Coercion
JF Nursing ethics
VO 12
IS 4
SP 370
OP 380
A1 Vuckovich, Paula K
A1 Artinian, Barbara M
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2005
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1779443854
AB A grounded theory study of psychiatric nurses’ experiences of administering medication to involuntary psychiatric patients revealed a basic social process of justifying coercion. Although the 17 nurses interviewed all reported success at avoiding the use of coercion, each had an individual approach to using the nurse-patient relationship to do this. However, all the nurses used the same process to reconcile themselves to using coercion when it became necessary. This has three stages: assessment of need; negotiation; and justifying and taking coercive action. Two critical junctures - decision to engage and impasse - determine the progression from one stage to the next. The process of justifying coercion allows a nurse to engage in behavior generally disapproved of while retaining a self-image of a ‘good’ nurse.
K1 psychotropic medication
K1 psychiatric nursing
K1 Mental Illness
K1 involuntary hospitalization
K1 Ethics
K1 Coercion
DO 10.1191/0969733005ne802oa