Emergency nurses’ ethical challenges with psychiatric patients: A qualitative study
Nursing Ethics: An International Journal for Health Care Professionals
Published online on April 28, 2026
Abstract
Nursing Ethics, Ahead of Print.
BackgroundEmergency departments increasingly serve as access points for patients experiencing psychiatric crises, creating ethical challenges for nurses. These environments remain designed for biomedical acute care, fundamentally incongruent with the ...
BackgroundEmergency departments increasingly serve as access points for patients experiencing psychiatric crises, creating ethical challenges for nurses. These environments remain designed for biomedical acute care, fundamentally incongruent with the ...