TY - JOUR
T1 - Defining and addressing moral distress
T2 - Tools for critical care nursing leaders
AU - Rushton, Cynda Hylton
PY - 2006/1/1
Y1 - 2006/1/1
N2 - Nurse clinicians may experience moral distress when they are unable to translate their moral choices into moral action. The costs of unrelieved moral distress are high; ultimately, as with all unresolved professional conflicts, the quality of patient care suffers. As a systematic process for change, this article offers the AACN's Model to Rise Above Moral Distress, describing four A's: ask, affirm, assess, and act. To help critical care nurses working to address moral distress, the article identifies 11 action steps they can take to develop an ethical practice environment.
AB - Nurse clinicians may experience moral distress when they are unable to translate their moral choices into moral action. The costs of unrelieved moral distress are high; ultimately, as with all unresolved professional conflicts, the quality of patient care suffers. As a systematic process for change, this article offers the AACN's Model to Rise Above Moral Distress, describing four A's: ask, affirm, assess, and act. To help critical care nurses working to address moral distress, the article identifies 11 action steps they can take to develop an ethical practice environment.
KW - Change process models
KW - Critical care nursing
KW - Moral distress
KW - Nursing leadership
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U2 - 10.1097/01256961-200604000-00011
DO - 10.1097/01256961-200604000-00011
M3 - Review article
C2 - 16767017
AN - SCOPUS:33745887489
SN - 1559-7768
VL - 17
SP - 161
EP - 168
JO - AACN advanced critical care
JF - AACN advanced critical care
IS - 2
ER -