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2016
Healthcare 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...
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Spring 2014
In this dissertation, I explore how a health organization’s function affects the moral dimensions of care within its neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Understanding this relationship reveals a broader view of the ethical challenges of neonatal intensive care, which enables a more coherent...
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Moral Distress in Pediatric Intensive Care Nurses: Experiences with the Death and Dying of Child Patients
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Background: Moral distress has been commonly understood in the literature to be when one knows the right thing to do but being unable to realize it. Research has indicated the consequences of such an experience can deeply affect the individual. Critical care areas are fraught with ethical issues...
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Fall 2016
Research exploring teacher experiences remains significant for informing teacher education, teacher induction, and teacher professional development initiatives. This narrative inquiry began with a wonder about how the experiences teachers have in their induction years continue to influence their...