La mise en œuvre d'une démarche éthique peut-elle influencer la souffrance des soignants?

Bolly, Cécile
(2011) Psycho-Oncologie — Vol. 5, n° 2, p. 98-108 (2011)

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(en) [Can the implementation of ethical processes have an influence on medical persons' suffering?] The fundamental ethical question for medical staff is that of the attention to the other as a singular subject and not as the object of care. In practice, its implementation does not allow — fortunately — to exempt the medical staff from questioning their own way of being a subject and of becoming involved in care. The article relates the experience of an “assistance to ethical decision-making” workshop, showing that ethical processes can help medical staff find a middle way in their commitment, avoiding exhaustion as well as indifference, which are both signs of suffering. Answers to a survey among medical staff who regularly take part in the workshop clearly emphasize several elements that favourably influence their well-being and the quality of their presence, making self-attention a preliminary to attention to the other. A second experience, the creation and use of a learning tool for ethical reasoning, confirms that positive influence. Being conscious of the ethical dimension of our work helps us understand, second after second, the need of making conscious choices and making them come true in every single gesture. It shows that the meaning of our actions is not only to be sought in the content of our decisions but also in the way we take and implement them. As such, it allows us daily to feel that building the best possible decisions for the patients enables us to build ourselves as medical persons. It is a whole philosophy of transmission which is then at work.
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Bolly, C. (2011). La mise en œuvre d’une démarche éthique peut-elle influencer la souffrance des soignants? Psycho-Oncologie, 5(2), 98-108. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11839-011-0314-6 (Original work published 2011)