This article highlights one practical method—ethics rounds—for establishing a climate in which nurses can freely reason through ethical dilemmas they confront in practice. The author discusses formats for ethics rounds and their guiding principles. These, together with her background discussion of ethical principles, can assist nursing administrators in facilitating ethics rounds that meet their obligations to support staff in dealing with ethical dilemmas.
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Anne J. Davis (1982) studied this question.