Analysis of Researching Lived Experience in Healthcare: Significance for Care Ethics

Rhetorical Analysis

Researcher, Bernadette Dierckx de Casterlé, in her narrative article, "Researching lived experience in health care: Significance for care ethics," evaluates ethical dilemmas in real-life experiences. Dierckx de Casterlé's purpose is to explain to her readers the role played by health care providers in decision making when involved in an ethical dilemma. The detail provided by Dierckx de Casterlé allows us to visualize the contribution the real-life experience examples had on ethical decision-making. In the article she attracts the attention and emotions of her adult readers and readers who have experienced an ethical dilemma related to a health condition.

Researcher Dierckx de Casterlé implies how ethical dilemmas in the healthcare environment can lead to difficult times in an ethical decision-making process. She refers to the lived example studies to demonstrate the unethical act of doctors' making their patients have false expectations, "The nurses believed the doctors supported the patients' positive stories too strongly, almost without reservation." She also, connects this time of grief in order to express with great detail "the doctors' behavior is not honest in any normal sense of the word and the nurses felt uneasy about this." The expression demonstrated by the researcher communicates a sentimental tone expressing emotions towards the patient's and family members involved.

I completely agree with researcher Bernadette Dierckx de Casterlé with the outcome of her research. In my opinion, I think the examples provided demonstrated the importance on how an unethical experience can assist in the families' ethical decision making. The vocabulary used in the article is sophisticated and includes a great amount of details to illustrate the in great depth the experiences' in the research. The article format is correctly structured allowing for the article to be clearly understood.

"Researching lived experience in health care: Significance for care ethics," is a nursing ethics article that is up to date and recently printed as of 2011. Her work is credible based on her publications throughout the years. She has another publication printed in 2010: "Nursing care for patients requesting euthanasia in general hospitals in Flanders, Belgium;" she is a part of the Journal of Advanced Nursing Organization.

The format and content was well written. Overall, the article was a concise article that allowed readers to clearly understand the author's idea. The information gathered in the article benefits my audience because it introduces the importance of the role of ethics in the healthcare field.