Justifying Coercion
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...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Sage
2005
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| Dans: |
Nursing ethics
Année: 2005, Volume: 12, Numéro: 4, Pages: 370-380 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
involuntary hospitalization
B Ethics B psychotropic medication B Mental Illness B psychiatric nursing B Coercion |
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| Résumé: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-0989 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Nursing ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1191/0969733005ne802oa |