Moral Distress: Inability to Act or Discomfort with Moral Subjectivity?

Amidst the wealth of literature on the topic of moral distress in nursing, a single citation is ubiquitous, Andrew Jameton’s 1984 book Nursing practice. The definition Jameton formulated reads ‘... moral distress arises when one knows the right thing to do, but institutional constraints make it near...

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Main Author: Repenshek, Mark (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2009
In: Nursing ethics
Year: 2009, Volume: 16, Issue: 6, Pages: 734-742
Further subjects:B end-of-life decision making
B Nursing
B Catholic
B Moral Distress
B moral subjectivity
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