Borderline personality disorder and the ethics of risk management: the action/consequences model.

Warrender, Dan

Abstract

Patients with borderline personality disorder are frequent users of inpatient mental health units, with inpatient crisis intervention often used based on the risk of suicide. However this can present an ethical dilemma for nursing and medical staff, with these clinician responses shifting between the moral principles of beneficence and non-maleficence, dependent on the outcomes of the actions of containing or tolerating risk. This paper examines the use of crisis intervention through moral duties, intentions and consequences, culminating in an action/consequences model of risk management, used to explore potential outcomes. This model may be useful in measuring adherence and violation of the principles of beneficence and non-maleficence, and therefore an aid to clinical decision making.

Citation

WARRENDER, D. 2018. Borderline personality disorder and the ethics of risk management: the action/consequences model. Nursing ethics [online], 25(7), pages 918-927. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0969733016679467

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 15, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Jan 19, 2017
• Publication Date: Nov 1, 2018
• Deposit Date: Dec 9, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 9, 2016
• Journal: Nursing ethics
• Print ISSN: 0969-7330
• Electronic ISSN: 1477-0989
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 918-927
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0969733016679467
• Keywords: Borderline personality disorder; Ethics; Risk management; Beneficence; Nonmaleficence
• Public URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10059/2013
• Contract Date: Dec 9, 2016