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OBJECTIVE: To know the ethical problems experienced by oncology nurses. METHOD: Descriptive and exploratory study with a qualitative approach, performed in inpatient units and in chemotherapy out-patients units that provide assistance to oncological patients in two capitals in the South region of Brazil. Eighteen nurses participated in this study, selected by snowball sampling type. For data collection, semi-structured interviews were carried out, which were recorded and transcribed, and then analyzed by thematic analysis. RESULTS: Two categories were established: when informing or not becomes a dilemma - showing the main difficulties related to oncological treatment information regarding health staff, health system, and infrastructure; to invest or not - dilemmas related to finitude - showing situations of dilemmas related to pain and confrontation with finitude. CONCLUSION: For the effective confrontation of the ethical problems experienced by oncology nurses to occur, it is important to invest in the training of these professionals, preparing them in an ethical and human way to act as lawyers of the patient with cancer, in a context of dilemmas related mainly to the possibility of finitude.
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Temas Bioéticos , Enfermagem Oncológica/ética , Brasil , Humanos , Princípios MoraisRESUMO
OBJECTIVE: evaluate the patient safety culture in the perspective of health professionals from a bone marrow transplantation unit of an oncology research center, at a reference hospital for cancer treatment in Santa Catarina, Brazil. METHOD: a quantitative cross-sectional study that used the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire was conducted between August and September 2013. The study analyzed 33 professional surveys. Statistical data analysis used descriptive and inferential statistics. RESULTS: among the dimensions analyzed, only "job satisfaction" reached a mean score above 75, considered positive in terms of patient safety culture. CONCLUSION: the dimensions of safety culture present in the survey have to be valued by professionals and managers to allow safe patient care.