Objective: to understand hospital nurse managers’ ethical problems from the perspective of Macintyre’s virtue ethics. Method: qualitative research of the single case study type, encompassed by Alasdair Macintyre’s theoretical framework of virtue ethics. Sixteen nurses in management positions participated in the study for a minimum period of six months. The setting was a university hospital in Belo Horizonte, Br...
Objective: To understand the practice of nurses in the context of the care model at the bedside of the patient in an Intensive Care Unit, in the light of the ethics of virtue.Method: Qualitative research, carried out in an Intensive Care Unit of a University Hospital MG/Brazil. Data were collected in February 2016 through a semi-structured interview applied to the 12 nurses who worked at the unit. The data were...
This qualitative integrated single-case study analyzed the role of nursing professionals in implementing the National Policy for the Integral Health of the Black Population in quilombola communities, based on the Feminist Ethics approach. Data collection took place between February and June 2018 by means of interviews conducted with nurses from the Family Health Strategy working in quilombola communities in the...