relationship of moral sensitivity and distress among physicians

Relationship of Moral Sensitivity and Distress Among Physicians

BACKGROUND Providing health services is described as an important moral measure, since its major aim is to ensure the welfare of the people who need treatment and care. Moral sensitivity is the ability to identify the existing moral problem and understand the moral consequences of the decisions made on the patient's part. Physicians are always exposed to moral distress due to various circumstan...

Moral sensitivity and moral distress in Iranian critical care nurses.

BACKGROUND Moral sensitivity is the foremost prerequisite to ethical performance; a review of literature shows that nurses are sometimes not sensitive enough for a variety of reasons. Moral distress is a frequent phenomenon in nursing, which may result in paradoxes in care, dealing with patients and rendering high-quality care. This may, in turn, hinder the meeting of care objectives, thus affe...

Moral Sensitivity as a Precondition of Moral Distress.

Moral Distress among Iranian Nurses

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to describe the moral distress among Iranian registered nurses. METHODS This was a descriptive -analytic study, in which 264 out of 1000 nurses were randomly selected as a sample group and completed the questionnaire. The nurses' moral distress was assessed using Corley's 30-item Moral Distress Scale adapted for use in an Iranian population. The collect...

Marital distress among resident physicians.

R esidency training has long been known to constitute a stressful time in the professional development of physicians.1-4 Considerable literature has documented problems in work performance,5 anxiety states,4 alcohol and drug abuse,6 depression7'8 and suicide9 among residents, but marital issues10 have been discussed less often. In 1984 Dr. Terry Isomura, Department of Psychiatry, Shaughnessy Ho...

The Relationship between Managers' Ethical Leadership Style with Professional Commitment and Ethical Sensitivity among Physicians of a Military Hospital

Introduction: Doctors as leaders and managers of different departments of a hospital are morally a model for students and clients. Hospitals, as organizations, according to their nature, should be sensitive to ethical issues and to the commitment of doctors. Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between managers’ ethical leadership style with professional comm...