Moral Distress: A Different Perspective
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Over the past three decades, a literature has emerged identifying, defining, and addressing the phenomenon of moral distress in health care professionals. Since the concept was originated in 1984, many writers have discussed moral distress as a nursing ethics issue, or more broadly as a clinical ethics issue, but there has not been literature addressing moral distress in health care professionals as an organizational ethics issue. In this paper, I will begin the process of doing precisely that.
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