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DIMENSIONS OF CRITICAL CARE NURSING
Volume 24, Issue 5, Pages 229-241Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/00003465-200509000-00011
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Moral distress; Ethics; Perception; Conflict
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Nurses frequently experience conflict regarding healthcare decisions, yet are expected to implement actions which they perceive to be morally wrong. Research has described the deleterious effects of this moral incongruency, coined moral distress, on nurses' well being and has identified it as a causative agent in nursing turnover, burnout, and nurses leaving the profession. Thus, it is known that moral distress has significant consequences for nurses, but does moral distress affect nurses' provision of care, and if so, how?
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