With the increasing complexity of health care, mortal distress in
nursing has risen to unprecedented levels. These conflicts threaten
nurses' core values and moral integrity, contributing to burnout and
staff shortages and endangering safety and quality of care.
Nurses in all roles and specialties face complex ethical situations
that challenge their values, giving rise to moral distress. New
approaches to overcoming the challenges of moral distress by increasing
moral resilience are presented in a supplement to the February issue of
the American Journal of Nursing. The journal is published by Wolters Kluwer.
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‘Recommendations on essential steps for addressing moral distress and supporting the cultivation of moral resilience among the nursing staff have been discussed in a new study.’
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Based on the proceedings of a recent expert symposium, the special report outlines strategies to mitigate the harmful effects of moral distress in the health care workforce and to create healthy work environments - with the goal of providing safe, high-quality care for patients and families.
The supplement, titled "State of the Science: Transforming Moral Distress into Moral Resilience in Nursing,"
is now available on AJN's website. Cynda Hylton Rushton and Kathy Schoonover-Shoffner are the guest editors of the
special report.
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One third of young people do not know the reason why International Nurses Day is celebrated and the necessity to take up nursing as a profession.
Addressing Moral Distress by Building Moral Resilience
Moral distress occurs when nurses and others "recognize their responsibility to respond to care situations but are unable to translate their moral choices into action." For example, an oncology nurse may know that a cancer patient wishes to refuse treatment, but doesn't do so because his physician and family want him to "fight on"; or nurses on a geriatric unit may know they are not providing needed care to patients because of poor staffing.
At an invited symposium held in Baltimore in August 2016, 46 nursing researchers, clinicians, ethicists and organization representatives met to discuss moral distress and to develop strategies to address it. Following a consensus process, the participants approved recommendations on essential steps for addressing moral distress and supporting the cultivation of moral resilience in individuals; and for building systems that support ethical practice. In both areas, priorities for education, practice, and policy are identified.
The project was a four-year collaborative effort of The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and Berman Institute of Ethics, the American Journal of Nursing, and the Journal of Christian Nursing, along with the American Association of Critical Care Nurses and the American Nurses Association. Funding support came from Johnson & Johnson, the Heilbrunn Family Foundation, and Nurses Christian Fellowship/USA.
"We hope clinicians, administrators, educators, and researchers will use this report to initiate conversations, plan strategies and curricula, and conduct research toward creating effective ways to respond to situations that provoke moral distress," according to an introductory editorial by Maureen Shawn Kennedy, Editor-in-Chief of American Journal of Nursing.
The Editors voice the hope that the information presented will lead to new approaches to lessening the occurrence and harmful effects of moral distress. They write, "With determined action, we can help nurses and other providers mitigate the effects of moral distress, enhance the ethical environment in which they practice, and improve the quality of health care."
Source: Eurekalert
Less Than 10% of Youngsters Aged 18-24 Years Wish to Pursue a Career in Nursing
One third of young people do not know the reason why International Nurses Day is celebrated and the necessity to take up nursing as a profession.
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Addressing Moral Distress by Building Moral Resilience
Moral distress occurs when nurses and others "recognize their responsibility to respond to care situations but are unable to translate their moral choices into action." For example, an oncology nurse may know that a cancer patient wishes to refuse treatment, but doesn't do so because his physician and family want him to "fight on"; or nurses on a geriatric unit may know they are not providing needed care to patients because of poor staffing.
At an invited symposium held in Baltimore in August 2016, 46 nursing researchers, clinicians, ethicists and organization representatives met to discuss moral distress and to develop strategies to address it. Following a consensus process, the participants approved recommendations on essential steps for addressing moral distress and supporting the cultivation of moral resilience in individuals; and for building systems that support ethical practice. In both areas, priorities for education, practice, and policy are identified.
The project was a four-year collaborative effort of The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and Berman Institute of Ethics, the American Journal of Nursing, and the Journal of Christian Nursing, along with the American Association of Critical Care Nurses and the American Nurses Association. Funding support came from Johnson & Johnson, the Heilbrunn Family Foundation, and Nurses Christian Fellowship/USA.
"We hope clinicians, administrators, educators, and researchers will use this report to initiate conversations, plan strategies and curricula, and conduct research toward creating effective ways to respond to situations that provoke moral distress," according to an introductory editorial by Maureen Shawn Kennedy, Editor-in-Chief of American Journal of Nursing.
The Editors voice the hope that the information presented will lead to new approaches to lessening the occurrence and harmful effects of moral distress. They write, "With determined action, we can help nurses and other providers mitigate the effects of moral distress, enhance the ethical environment in which they practice, and improve the quality of health care."
Source: Eurekalert
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