RT Article
T1 Conceptual framework for the ethical climate in health professionals
JF Nursing ethics
VO 29
IS 5
SP 1174
OP 1185
A1 Dalmolin, Graziele de Lima
A1 Lanes, Taís Carpes
A1 Bernardi, Camila Milene Soares
A1 Ramos, Flávia Regina Souza
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1816397792
AB The ethical climate is the perception of health professionals about the work environment, meaning the reflection on care practices and ethical-related decisions. There are extensive studies in the international literature about the ethical climate, but there are still theoretical gaps about it in health services. In this reflection article, the objective was to explore conceptual components about the ethical climate, proposing new elements of analysis of the construct. The starting point was the accumulated knowledge itself, the possibilities for expansion, and the conceptual progress emerging from contributions from studies on nursing ethics. It was understandable that the ethical climate is considered in its procedural model and cyclically, being articulated with organizational elements, as established in the literature, and, expanding the concept, with the worker’s health and the ethical expressiveness at work. Regarding this last contribution, the suggestion is to think about the potential for work to allow, limit, or favor professionals to express their ethical and esthetic values in the most daily decisions and relationships, in care, management, and education. The conceptual framework of this study progressed by addressing the ethical climate as a process articulating several concepts and elements regarding the organizational aspect, ethics, and the workers’ well-being.
K1 theoretical
K1 Models
K1 worker’s health
K1 Work Environment
K1 ethical issues
K1 Nursing
K1 Ethics
K1 Ethical Climate
DO 10.1177/09697330221075741