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  1. Gender and the experience of moral distress in critical care nurses.Christopher B. O’Connell - 2015 - Nursing Ethics 22 (1):32-42.
    Background: Nursing practice is complex, as nurses are challenged by increasingly intricate moral and ethical judgments. Inadequately studied in underrepresented groups in nursing, moral distress is a serious problem internationally for healthcare professionals with deleterious effects to patients, nurses, and organizations. Moral distress among nurses has been shown to contribute to decreased job satisfaction and increased turnover, withdrawal from patients, physical and psychological symptoms, and intent to leave current position or to leave the profession altogether. Research question: Do significant gender (...)
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  • Moral distress in Turkish intensive care nurses.Serife Karagozoglu, Gulay Yildirim, Dilek Ozden & Ziynet Çınar - 2017 - Nursing Ethics 24 (2):209-224.
    Background: Moral distress is a common problem among professionals working in the field of healthcare. Moral distress is the distress experienced by a professional when he or she cannot fulfill the correct action due to several obstacles, although he or she is aware of what it is. The level of moral distress experienced by nurses working in intensive care units varies from one country/culture/institution to another. However, in Turkey, there is neither a measurement tool used to assess moral distress suffered (...)
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  • Take me to my leader.Janet Storch, Kara Schick Makaroff, Bernie Pauly & Lorelei Newton - 2013 - Nursing Ethics 20 (2):150-157.
    Although ethical leadership by formal nurse leaders is critical to enhancing ethical health-care practice, research has shown that many nurses feel unsupported by their leaders. In this article, we consider the limited attention directed toward ethical leadership of formal nurse leaders and how our own research on ethical nurse leadership compares to other research in this field. In searching Nursing Ethics since its inception 20 years ago, we found only a dozen articles that directly addressed this topic. We then reviewed (...)
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  • Assessment of ethical competence among clinical nurses in health facilities.Veronica Mary Maluwa, Alfred Ochanza Maluwa, Gertrude Mwalabu & Gladys Msiska - 2022 - Nursing Ethics 29 (1):181-193.
    Background: Ethical competence in nursing practice helps clinical nurses to think critically, analyse issues, make ethical decisions, solve ethical problems and behave ethically in their daily work. Thus, ethical competence contributes to the promotion of high-quality care. However, studies on ethical competence in Malawi are scanty. Objectives: The aim of this study was to explore ethical competence among clinical nurses in selected hospitals in Malawi. Methodology: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in four selected hospitals in Malawi with a sample of (...)
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  • Nurse middle manager ethical dilemmas and moral distress.Freda D. Ganz, Nurit Wagner & Orly Toren - 2015 - Nursing Ethics 22 (1):43-51.
    Background: Nurse managers are placed in a unique position within the healthcare system where they greatly impact upon the nursing work environment. Ethical dilemmas and moral distress have been reported for staff nurses but not for nurse middle managers. Objective: To describe ethical dilemmas and moral distress among nurse middle managers arising from situations of ethical conflict. Methods: The Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing–Middle Manager Questionnaire and a personal characteristics questionnaire were administered to a convenience sample of middle managers from four (...)
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  • Korean nurses’ ethical dilemmas, professional values and professional quality of life.Kyunghee Kim, Yonghee Han & Ji-su Kim - 2015 - Nursing Ethics 22 (4):467-478.
    Background: In the changing medical environment, professional stress continuously increases as the individual’s quality of life suffers. Of all the healthcare professions, nursing is especially prone to burnout, compassion fatigue and reduced compassion satisfaction, due to the tensions resulting from the physical and psychological stress of caring for extremely ill patients. Objectives: This study examined the professional quality of life of clinical nurses in Korea and the relationship between their experiences in ethical dilemmas and professional values. Methods: This was a (...)
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  • Identification of risk factors for moral distress in nurses: basis for the development of a new assessment tool.Rafaela Schaefer, Elma Lourdes Campos Pavone Zoboli & Margarida Vieira - 2016 - Nursing Inquiry 23 (4):346-357.
    This article proposes to identify risk factors for moral distress from the literature, validate them through expert analysis and provide the basis for a new tool to assess the risk of moral distress among nurses. Moral distress is related to the psychological, emotional and physiological aspects of nursing. It arises from constraints caused by various circumstances and can lead to significant negative consequences. A scoping review and validation through expert analysis were used. The research question guiding this study was as (...)
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  • Moral distress experienced by non-Western nurses: An integrative review.Chuleeporn Prompahakul & Elizabeth G. Epstein - 2020 - Nursing Ethics 27 (3):778-795.
    Background: Moral distress has been identified as a significant issue in nursing practice for many decades. However, most studies have involved American nurses or Western medicine settings. Cultural differences between Western and non-Western countries might influence the experience of moral distress. Therefore, the literature regarding moral distress experiences among non-Western nurses is in need of review. Aim: The aim of this integrative review was to identify, describe, and synthesize previous primary studies on moral distress experienced by non-Western nurses. Review method: (...)
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  • Moral distress, moral resilience, and job embeddedness among pediatric nurses.Fuda Li, Jiayan Zhong & Ziyuan He - 2024 - Nursing Ethics 31 (4):584-596.
    Background Nurses often face ethical issues in their daily work that can have an impact on their level of job embeddedness. And positive job embeddedness is essential to reduce burnout among nurses and improve professional retention in the medical industry. However, few studies have focused on the relationship between moral distress, moral resilience, and job embeddedness. Objectives To investigate the relationship between moral distress, moral resilience, and job embeddedness, and explore the mediating role of moral resilience between moral distress and (...)
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  • Moral distress among nurses: A mixed-methods study.Chuleeporn Prompahakul, Jessica Keim-Malpass, Virginia LeBaron, Guofen Yan & Elizabeth G. Epstein - 2021 - Nursing Ethics 28 (7-8):1165-1182.
    Background: Moral distress is recognized as a problem affecting healthcare professionals globally. Unaddressed moral distress may lead to withdrawal from the moral dimensions of patient care, burnout, or leaving the profession. Despite the importance, studies related to moral distress are scant in Thailand. Objective: This study aims to describe the experience of moral distress and related factors among Thai nurses. Design: A convergent parallel mixed-methods design was used. The quantitative and qualitative data were collected in parallel using the Measure of (...)
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  • Psychometric evaluation of the Moral Distress Risk Scale: A methodological study.Rafaela Schaefer, Elma L. C. P. Zoboli & Margarida M. Vieira - 2019 - Nursing Ethics 26 (2):434-442.
    Background: Moral distress is a kind of suffering that nurses may experience when they act in ways that are considered inconsistent with moral values, leading to a perceived compromise of moral integrity. Consequences are mostly negative and include physical and psychological symptoms, in addition to organizational implications. Objective: To psychometrically test the Moral Distress Risk Scale. Research design: A methodological study was realized. Data were submitted to exploratory factorial analysis through the SPSS statistical program. Participants and research context: In total, (...)
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  • Emotive responses to ethical challenges in caring.Gladys Msiska, Pam Smith & Tonks Fawcett - 2014 - Nursing Ethics 21 (1):97-107.
    This article reports findings of a hermeneutic phenomenological study that explored the clinical learning experience for Malawian undergraduate student nurses. The study revealed issues that touch on both nursing education and practice, but the article mainly reports the practice issues. The findings reveal the emotions that healthcare workers in Malawi encounter as a consequence of practising in resource-poor settings. Furthermore, there is severe nursing shortage in most clinical settings in Malawi, and this adversely affects the performance of nurses because of (...)
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  • Enhancing students’ moral competence in practice.Eva Merethe Solum, Veronica Mary Maluwa, Bodil Tveit & Elisabeth Severinsson - 2016 - Nursing Ethics 23 (6):685-697.
    Background: Nurses and student nurses in Malawi often encounter challenges in taking a moral course of action. Several studies have demonstrated a need for increased awareness of ethical issues in the nursing education. Objective: To explore the challenges experienced by nurse teachers in Malawi in their efforts to enhance students’ moral competence in clinical practice. Research design: A qualitative hermeneutic approach was employed to interpret the teachers’ experiences. Participants and research context: Individual interviews (N = 8) and a focus group (...)
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  • Ethical concerns in maternal and child healthcare in Malawi.Gladys Msiska, Tiwonge Munkhondya, Berlington Munkhondya, Lucy Ngoma, Hlalapi Kunkeyani, Andrew Simwaka, Pam Smith, Lucy Kululanga, Rodwell Gundo, Ezereth Kabuluzi, Patrick Mapulanga & Chisomo Mulenga - 2022 - Clinical Ethics 17 (3):256-264.
    Background Caring is a core function of nurses and it confers upon them ethical obligations as ethical agents. Failure to carry out such ethical obligations raises ethical concerns. This study was not intended to explore ethical concerns, but the reported findings reveal problems which have ethical implications. This paper aims to elucidate the ethical issues inherent in the findings and propose strategies to mitigate them. Research design and methods An exploratory-descriptive qualitative design was used within a larger Action Research Study. (...)
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  • Moral competence among nurses in Malawi: A concept analysis approach.Veronica Mary Maluwa, Elizabeth Gwaza, Betty Sakala, Esnath Kapito, Ruth Mwale, Clara Haruzivishe & Ellen Chirwa - 2019 - Nursing Ethics 26 (5):1361-1372.
    Background: Nurses are expected to provide comprehensive, holistic and ethically accepted care according to their code of ethics and practice. However, in Malawi, this is not always the case. This article analyses moral competence concept using the Walker and Avant's strategy of concept analysis. Objective: The aim of this article is to analyse moral competence concept in relation to nursing practice and determine defining attributes, antecedents and consequences of moral competence in nursing practice. Method: Analysis of moral competence concept was (...)
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  • COVID-19 Pandemic and Moral Distress.Emine Korkmaz & Sevda Korkut - 2021 - Türkiye Biyoetik Dergisi 8 (1):3-10.
    COVID-19, a severe acute respiratory disease caused by a newly discovered corona virus, was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. As in disasters, wars and epidemics throughout history, healthcare professionals are at the forefront of providing healthcare services in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. This process in which deeply affected both the health system and health professionals, the entire health community has come face to face with moral distress. Moral distress is an (...)
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