Ethics and bioethics in healthcare

In order to prepare bioethics and clinical ethics courses for clinicians in Turkey, we needed to know the attitudes of physicians when placed in ethically difficult care situations. We presented four cases to 207 physicians who are members of the Physicians' Association in Kocaeli, Turkey. Depending on the decisions t…

• ÜMİT NACİ GÜNDOĞMUŞ

OBJECTIVE: patient rights are defined as the rules of conduct between the people who benefit from health services and the health institutions and personnel who provide them. As the protection and provision of these rights are closely related to the nursing trade, these professionals must have thorough knowledge about…

• SELEN ÖZAKAR AKÇA

Background: Technological advances in critical care contribute to patient survival, but healthcare professionals working in these units, which require technical expertise, experience highly challenging ethical decision-making processes. Aim: The aim of this study is to determine the attitudes of intensive care nurses…

• RANA CAN ÖZDEMİR

Background: Technological advances in critical care contribute to patient survival, but healthcare professionals working in these units, which require technical expertise, experience highly challenging ethical decision-making processes. Aim: The aim of this study is to determine the attitudes of intensive care nurses…

• MERYEM TÜRKAN IŞIK

Felsefe, gerçekliğin doğasını sistematik düşünme yolu ile anlamak isteyen insanın bir etkinliği olarak tanımlanabilir. Ahlak felsefesi ya da etik insan eylemlerini ve bu eylemlerin dayandığı ilkeleri konu edinen felsefe dalıdır. Etik “yanlış”ı“doğru”dan ayırabilmek amacıyla “ahlak” kavramının doğasını anlamaya çalışır…

• GÜLTEN OKUROĞLU

BACKGROUND: Conscientious objection is a person's refusal to fulfill a legal duty due to their ethical values, religious beliefs, or ideological affiliations. In nursing, it refers to a nurse's refusal to perform an action or participate in a particular situation based on their conscience. Conscientious objection has…

• ZEHRA GÖÇMEN BAYKARA

Work-related diseases, injuries, risks and deaths are the issues that have been recently gaining importance especially in developing countries. The ethical dimensions of occupational health and safety have remained as relatively understudied areas. Concepts such as responsibility, consent, autonomy, paternalism, choic…

• FATİH ARTVİNLİ

OBJECTIVES: Lumbar puncture (LP) is fundamental for diagnosis and treatment; however, some parents do not provide consent for their children to undergo the procedure, which can make diagnosis and determination of the optimal treatment difficult. The present study aimed to describe the level of knowledge and attitudes…

• SALİHA ŞENEL

Yoğun bakım ünitelerinde yaşanan etik sorunlarla ilgili yayımlanmış çalışmaları araştırmak ve sistematik olarak gözden geçirmek amacıyla yürütülmüştür. Çalışma, 1 Ocak 2007-31 Ocak 2017 tarihleri arasında ''Web Of Science, Google Scholar, Pubmed, Science Direct, Proquest, Cochrane, EBSCOhost, Clinical Key, Ovid'' veri…

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• MERVE KIRŞAN BÜYÜKTARAKÇI

Bu makalede «etik» kavramını tanıtmak; onun konusunu, yöntemini, başka bazı disiplinlerle olan ilişkisini ele almak ve onun tıpta uygulanışında ortaya çıkan başlıca görünümlerini örneklemek amaçlanmıştır. Etik, Ahlak, Deontoloji Kavramları Etik, Yunanca «Ethos» sözcüğünden gelmektedir. «Ahlak kuramı» ya da «teorik ahl…

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• SERAP ŞAHİNOĞLU KUŞ

BACKGROUND: AIDS, SARS, and the recent epidemics of the avian-flu have all served to remind us the debate over the limits of the moral duty to care. It is important to first consider the question of whether or not the "duty to treat" might be subject to contextual constraints. The purpose of this study was to investig…

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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze the ethical challenges experienced by nurses, who provide care for COVID-19 patients in intensive care units. Methods: Qualitative phenomenological method was used with in-depth interviews, focusing on the concept of "ethical challenges". The study was conducted with 1…

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