Faculty of Education and Welfare Studies, Department of Caring Science, Åbo Akademi University, Vaasa, Finland.
Nurs Philos. 2021 Apr;22(2):e12339. doi: 10.1111/nup.12339. Epub 2020 Dec 7.
In this paper, we explore the concept of virtue in nursing care. We particularly examine the description of 'virtue' offered by Aristotle, who considers it the mental constitution that forms the basis for laudable social behaviour. We then turn to Katie Eriksson's work on caritative caring ethics and draw parallels between the Aristotelian concept of virtue and being a good nurse. Eriksson suggests that embracing an ethos, a set of basic values, affects nurses' attitudes as well as the way they speak and take on their responsibility for the patient. We discuss these ideas in relation to a tentative ideal model of the movement from ethos to action to understand and address nurses' ethical thinking and acting. Here, we focus on the catalytic role of virtue as a means for realizing a deliberate, intentional acting with the best of the patient in mind. As an outcome of our analysis, we suggest that the movement of virtue from ethos to action is most usefully conceptualized as knowledge about facts, habits of the heart, deeds of the hand and the power of words. Implications for nursing leadership are suggested, including incorporating organizational values through the means of ethical conversations.
本文探讨了护理关怀中的美德概念。我们特别研究了亚里士多德对“美德”的描述，他认为美德是构成值得称赞的社会行为基础的心理构成。然后，我们转向凯蒂·埃里克森（Katie Eriksson）关于关爱的护理伦理的工作，并在亚里士多德的美德概念和成为一名好护士之间找到相似之处。埃里克森认为，接受一种精神，即一套基本价值观，会影响护士的态度以及他们说话和承担对患者责任的方式。我们将这些想法与一个试探性的理想模型联系起来，即从精神到行动的转变，以理解和解决护士的伦理思维和行为。在这里，我们关注美德作为一种手段的催化作用，目的是实现深思熟虑、有意识的行动，并始终将患者的利益放在首位。作为我们分析的结果，我们建议将美德从精神到行动的转变最有效地概念化为对事实的认识、心灵习惯、手头的行为和言语的力量。我们提出了对护理领导力的影响，包括通过道德对话来整合组织价值观。
