Contemporary Healthcare Practice and the Risk of Moral Distress

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dc.contributor.authorAustin, Wendy
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-01T11:38:42Z
dc.date.available2025-05-01T11:38:42Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionHealthcare professionals are moral agents whose fiduciary relationship with the public is animated by responsibility and the promise to use knowledge and skills to aid those in their care. When their ability to keep this promise is constrained or compromised, moral distress can result. Moral distress in healthcare is defined and outlined. Constraints and factors that lead to moral distress are identified as are the means that individual professionals and organizations use to address it. A call is made for transformative change to overcome a culture of silence and to sustain a healthcare system that is morally habitable.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7939/R3D21RZ1S
dc.language.isoen
dc.relationhttps://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0840470416637835
dc.relation.isversionofAustin, Wendy. (2016). Contemporary Healthcare Practice and the Risk of Moral Distress. Health Management Forum, 29(3), 131-133. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0840470416637835
dc.rights© 2016 Austin, W. This version of this article is open access and can be downloaded and shared. The original author(s) and source must be cited.
dc.subjectEthics
dc.subjectHealth care professionals
dc.subjectMoral distress
dc.titleContemporary Healthcare Practice and the Risk of Moral Distress
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85
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