Confronting moral distress in Nursing: recognizing nurses as moral agents

The concept of moral distress has brought forth a substantively different way of understanding some of the difficulties confronted by nurses in their practice. This concept highlights that nurses' distress can be an indication of nurses' conscientious moral engagement with their profession...

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Main Author: Franco A. Carnevale
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem 2013-09-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-71672013000700004&lng=en&tlng=en