Nursing Ethics: Moral Distress in Nursing

Nurses can feel moral distress when they feel they feel their integrity has been compromised or when they feel powerless to take actions they know are ethically correct. In this video, Cynda Rushton, Anne and George L. Bunting Professor of Clinical Ethics, talks about the roots of moral distress and how nurses can effectively manage it.

This video is part of the Isabel Hampton Robb Nursing Ethics series.

[elverdad]

My "superiors" on every single nursing job I had tried to force me to go against regulation, putting patients at risk, and I suffered huge consequences for standing my ground.

[yanpinghuang]

Thank you for your insightful opinion about nursing morality.

[nicholas]

"causing more harm"... please give examples.

[privateauthor]

It is inhumane and cruel to demand health workers that work directly with the unwell to "disconnect" when it only causes serious well being issues. It is abnormal to do this in the first place. Emotions do not work like this. Solutions that deny basic humanity cause intense distress.

[CheezeItSecret]

A whole lotta words to say a whole lotta nothing