“Moral Distress” Has Arrived On Health Care’s Stoop
The Healthcare Blog
AUGUST 30, 2024
By MIKE MAGEE When Andrew Jameton, a Nursing Professor at the Department of Mental Health and Community Nursing at UCSF in 1984 published “Nursing Practice: The Ethical Issues” , the term “Moral Distress” was a novel term in clinical health care. It focused primarily on “care that they were expected to provide but ethically opposed.” Over the past four decades, the definition has expanded and now encompasses the “inability to provide the care that one feels morally compelled to provide.
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