Moral distress: challenges for an autonomous nursing professional practice
Constantly experiencing limiting situations that hinder a professional practice coherent with its principles – of autonomy and advocacy of users’ interests –, and often conditioned to experience moral distress, the nursing profession plays a prominent role in the current health model because it has...
| Autores: | , , , , , |
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2013 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG) |
| Repositorio: | Repositório Institucional da FURG (RI FURG) |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.furg.br:1/5298 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://repositorio.furg.br/handle/1/5298 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Nursing Professional practice Ethics, nursing Stress psychological Health advocacy Enfermagem Prática profissional Ética em enfermagem Estresse psicológico Advocacia em saúde Enfermería Práctica profesional Ética en enfermería Estrés psicológico Defensa de la salud |
| Sumario: | Constantly experiencing limiting situations that hinder a professional practice coherent with its principles – of autonomy and advocacy of users’ interests –, and often conditioned to experience moral distress, the nursing profession plays a prominent role in the current health model because it has the characteristic of managing the care rendered to users in a perspective of social inclusion, both in the basic health network and in hospitals. Aiming at carrying out a reflection on the nursing practice and the difficulties present in its work routine, and considering its characteristics as a profession, this article sought to make a reflection between the practice of nursing and the numerous moral challenges imposed by the routine, resulting, in many cases, in a value crisis that can reverberate directly on the quality of the service rendered, and in abandonment of the ideals of advocacy for users |
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