Mitigating the Effects of Moral Distress

All nurses have patients and situations that stay with them. She has many wonderful memories from her years in critical care, but then there are the not so wonderful memories: the last glance between an elderly man with fatal injuries and his wife as he was rushed to surgery that everyone knew he wouldn't survive (he didn't); the woman with no brain function whose family camped out in the waiting room for two weeks, arguing among themselves over "pulling the plug"; the young stabbing victim who was needlessly subjected to multiple invasive procedures because "it was the protocol." Here, Kennedy talks about the factors of moral distress..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:117

Enthalten in:

American journal of nursing - 117(2017), 2, Seite 7

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kennedy, Maureen Shawn [VerfasserIn]

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BKL:

44.63

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Themen:

Emotional disorders
Nostalgia
Nurses
Quality of care

doi:

10.1097/01.NAJ.0000512276.64382.5a

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OLC1990489818