TY - JOUR
T1 - The many faces of moral distress among clinicians
AU - Rushton, Cynda H.ylton
AU - Boss, Renee
AU - Hallett, Kristina
AU - Hensel, Jaime
AU - Humphrey, G. Bennett
AU - Les, Jessica
AU - Mack, Cheryl
AU - McCammon, Susan
AU - Murray, John S.
AU - Nathanson, Esther
AU - Pniewski, Janet
AU - Shuham, A. M.t.
AU - Volpe, Rebecca L.
PY - 2013/9/1
Y1 - 2013/9/1
N2 - This narrative symposium illuminates the problem of clinician moral distress. NIB editorial staff and narrative symposium editors, Cynda Rushton, PhD, RN, FAAN and Renee Boss, MD, MHS, developed a call for stories, which was sent to several list serves and posted on Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics' website. The request for personal stories from inter-professional healthcare providers asked them to: identify specific clinical situations that give rise to moral distress; discuss the sources of this distress; reflect on how they experienced moral distress-physically, psychologically, socially, or spiritually; assess how they managed their situations; and offer suggestions for avoiding future problems of a similar nature. Twelve stories are found in the print version of the journal and an additional eight supplemental stories are published online only through Project MUSE. The clinicians describe a wide range of experiences with patients, other clinicians, and their own professional and personal identities. Embedded in each of the narratives are deeply felt emotions that accompany their experiences of moral distress. Katherine Brown-Saltzman (a nurse), Alisa Carse (a philosopher), Zhanna Bagdasarov and Shane Connelly (industrial-organizational psychologists), and Nancy Berlinger (a bioethicist) provided commentaries.
AB - This narrative symposium illuminates the problem of clinician moral distress. NIB editorial staff and narrative symposium editors, Cynda Rushton, PhD, RN, FAAN and Renee Boss, MD, MHS, developed a call for stories, which was sent to several list serves and posted on Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics' website. The request for personal stories from inter-professional healthcare providers asked them to: identify specific clinical situations that give rise to moral distress; discuss the sources of this distress; reflect on how they experienced moral distress-physically, psychologically, socially, or spiritually; assess how they managed their situations; and offer suggestions for avoiding future problems of a similar nature. Twelve stories are found in the print version of the journal and an additional eight supplemental stories are published online only through Project MUSE. The clinicians describe a wide range of experiences with patients, other clinicians, and their own professional and personal identities. Embedded in each of the narratives are deeply felt emotions that accompany their experiences of moral distress. Katherine Brown-Saltzman (a nurse), Alisa Carse (a philosopher), Zhanna Bagdasarov and Shane Connelly (industrial-organizational psychologists), and Nancy Berlinger (a bioethicist) provided commentaries.
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U2 - 10.1353/nib.2013.0039
DO - 10.1353/nib.2013.0039
M3 - Article
C2 - 24407071
AN - SCOPUS:84942983556
SN - 2157-1732
VL - 3
SP - 89
EP - 93
JO - Narrative inquiry in bioethics
JF - Narrative inquiry in bioethics
IS - 2
ER -