Nursing and caring
Nurses encounter ethical dilemmas in their daily work. But there are also moral dimensions to nursing practice. Nursing ethics is concerned with the moral dimensions of nursing practice while the ethics of care is a normative ethical theory.
For many years CRB has developed these fields from different angles. We have used qualitative studies to describe and explore the kinds of ethical dilemmas nurses encounter in their day-to-day work and how they solve them. Other studies have investigated the role of ethical guidelines in the building of ethical competence in nursing practice and in priority setting.
The focus in nursing ethics research is on the relationship between the nurse and the person receiving care. A central question is what the nurse can do for the person in need of care and how a respectful meeting could take place, despite the asymmetry in the relationship between nurse and patient. Nursing ethics focuses more on developing caring relationships than on broader ethical principles. The concept of ‘caring’ has priority over the concept of ‘curing’ and how a person should ‘be’ rather than how they should act is stressed. As a result, virtue ethics have often been elaborated within the framework of nursing ethics.
The concept of ‘care’ is often defined as a practice, but at the same time as a value and an ideal that can guide normative judgments and actions. This tradition is often contrasted with duty based (deontological) and consequentialist (utilitarian) ethics. It argues for embodied relations and emotions to be part of moral judgments.
Children with cancer
Recruitment to research

Exploring the ethical values and challenges related to asking children with cancer and their parents to partake in clinical studies and obtaining informed consent.
Pretend play for children with cancer

We ran a pilot project to see if pretend play can hellp children with cancer and their families.
Patients on the Ethics Blog
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Patient views on treatment of Parkinson’s disease with embryonic stem cells
Source: Pär Segerdahl 2022-11-15
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We need to care about care ethics
Source: annathoglund 2021-12-07
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New dissertation on patient preferences in medical approvals
Source: Pär Segerdahl 2021-05-25
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Patient integrity at the end of life
Source: Pär Segerdahl 2021-03-23
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We do not know if cancer patients receive better treatment by participating in clinical trials
Source: Pär Segerdahl 2020-05-12
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Clinical cancer trials convey a culture of hope
Source: Pär Segerdahl 2020-01-14
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Who belongs to us?
Source: Pär Segerdahl 2019-10-02
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How about personally optimized treatment?
Source: Pär Segerdahl 2019-05-06
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Pragmatic trials without informed consent?
Source: Pär Segerdahl 2019-04-08
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On “truly” understanding the risk
Source: Pär Segerdahl 2019-03-12
Nursing Ethics & Ethics of Care
Nursing ethics is concerned with the moral dimensions of nursing practice while the ethics of care is a normative ethical theory. For many years CRB has developed these fields from different angles. We have used qualitative studies to describe and explore the kinds of ethical dilemmas nurses encounter in their day-to-day work and how they solve them. Other studies have investigated the role of ethical guidelines in the building of ethical competence in nursing practice and in priority setting. In this report, we provide a summary of our research.
