Nurse managers’ moral suffering in a university hospital

Nurse managers' moral distress in the context of the hospital ethical climate

Moral distress is a negative emotional and somatic response to external constraints on moral action. The constraints are typically identified as a component of the work environment, called the ethical climate. Moral distress is identified as a primary reason for job attrition by up to one-quarter of registered nurses who leave their jobs. One strategy suggested to staff nurses who experience mo...

Nurse Managers’ Moral Self Concept and Ethical Sensitivity

Changes in nursing concepts and health requirements, increased roles of nurses, increases in number of nursing clients, and changes in values of nurses themselves give rise to a variety of ethical conflicts that nurses must personally face in certain ethical situations, and these conflicts require high standard of ethics to resolve (Lee & Bang, 1984). Therefore, nurses must be able to justify t...

The UH Nurse: Fall 1991 v. 5, no. 1: Boston University Medical Center, the University Hospital Nurse: University Hospital Nurse: The BUMCH Nurse

The UH Nurse: December 1981 no. 2: Boston University Medical Center, the University Hospital Nurse: The BUMCH Nurse: The University Hospital Nurse

Nurse empowerment from a middle-management perspective: nurse managers' and assistant nurse managers' workplace empowerment views.

BACKGROUND Researchers have explored empowerment as an important condition for nursing staff but little current research focuses on empowerment from a middle-management perspective. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to assess the empowerment of a middle-management group made up of only nurse managers (NMs) and assistant nurse managers (ANMs) in an acute-care hospital setting. ...