Nurses’ moral deliberation in the child care processABSTRACT
Objective: To understand the nurses’ moral deliberation in the face of an ethical problem involving breastfeeding.
Method: Qualitative study based on the methodological theoretical framework of deliberative bioethics. Data collection was through a vignette-based interview and results were organized by thematic analysis.
Results: Nurses tend to take over intermediate courses of action, although extreme courses of action are found as well.
Final considerations: When they tend to take extreme courses of action, nurses approach decisions focused on the child welfare to the detriment of the mother’s need as a working woman.
Descriptors: Bioethics; Child Health; Family Nurse Practitioners; Breastfeeding; Decision Making
