Nursing strikes: An ethical perspective on the US healthcare community

Neiman, Paul

doi:10.1177/0969733011408050

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“…Neiman 2011; Tabak and Wagner 1997. 6 Some authors employ broader definitions of care work, such as this one byEngland, Budig, and Folbre (2002): care work consists in providing "a face-to-face…”

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Care Workers on Strike

Huget

2020

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This paper investigates a moral conflict that care workers, defined as workers who care for dependent others, confront when they go on strike. Care workers who confront decisions about whether to go on strike are, in my analysis, caught between impossible options: Should they prioritize the needs of those who are currently dependent upon them, and forego striking, or prioritize their long-term ability to provide the best possible care, and partake in strikes? I argue that care workers who confront these decisions are often caught in a tragic moral conflict where “moral failure” is inevitable. However, I argue that we should place blame for said moral failures not upon striking care workers themselves but upon employers and others responsible for creating the decision contexts in which care workers must morally fail. I also argue that those responsible for creating the decision contexts in which care workers must morally fail are guilty of various moral and material harms to care workers.

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Care Workers on Strike

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2020

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“…42/1999). According to the previous literature, national and local legislation is an elementary, 2,[16][17][18][19] and also studied, 19,[49][50][51][52] part of nurses' rights. However, from a global perspective, nurses are working in different practical settings in a wide variety of national legislations.…”

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Nurses’ perceptions of their professional rights

2013

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The purpose of this study, which is part of a wider study of professional ethics, was to describe nurses' perceptions of their rights in Italy. The data were collected by open-ended focus group interviews and analyzed with inductive content analysis. Based on the analysis, three main themes were identified. The first theme "Unfamiliarity with rights" described nurses' perception that their rights mirrored historical roots, educational content, and nurses' and patients' position in the society. The second theme, "Rights reflected in legislation" highlighted that working and professional Italian legislation played a strong role. The third theme, "Managerial barriers for nurses' rights" underlined the nurses' perceptions that nursing management had the responsibility to create the conditions where nurses' rights could flourish. This study intends to contribute to the debate on this underexplored topic.

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“…31,32 These have recently been applied by Neiman. 33 Here the main tenets are only briefly summarised. A third possible approach to nurses’ participation in industrial action will, however, be explored: virtue ethics and the ethics of care have received steadily increasing amounts of attention in nursing practice, and are growing in application value.…”

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“…Virtue ethics is a third possible normative approach to nurses’ participation in industrial action. 33 While the previous two approaches focus largely on actions when determining moral behaviour, virtue ethics provides moral guidance by striving to develop a good person and the characteristics (virtues) of such a person. This approach, with its roots in Aristotelian ethics, has become especially appealing in recent years.…”

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Nurses, industrial action and ethics

Rensburg

2013

Nurs Ethics

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Several important ethical dilemmas emerge when nurses join a public-sector strike. Such industrial action is commonplace in South Africa and was most notably illustrated by a national wage negotiation in 2010. Media coverage of the proceedings suggested unethical behaviour on the part of nurses, and further exploration is merited. Laws, policies and provisional codes are meant to guide nurses' behaviour during industrial action, while ethical theories can be used to further illuminate the role of nurses in industrial action. There are, however, important aspects to consider before judging whether nurses act unethically when striking. Following Loewy's suggestion that the nature of the work, the proceeding commitment of the nurse to the patient, the prevailing situation when the strike is planned and the person(s) who stand(s) to benefit from the strike be considered, coupled with a consideration of the South African historical socio-political context, important aspects of the ethics of nurses' behaviour in industrial action transpire.

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Nursing strikes: An ethical perspective on the US healthcare community

Cited by 17 publications

References 27 publications

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