Connie M. Ulrich & Christine Grady, Moral Distress in the Health Professions
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Connie M. Ulrich & Christine Grady, Moral Distress in the Health Professions Mohammad J. Thalgi 1 Accepted: 28 April 2020/ # Springer Nature B.V. 2020
This book provides a theoretical and practical study of Moral Distress. In recent years, this term has become more familiar to the philosopher, scholars and it has become a common phenomenon in the daily lives of those who work in the healthcare professions. Moral Distress is a relatively recent term. This is despite it being addressed by researchers in the fields of philosophy and medicine more than thirty years ago. Many authors have defined Moral Distress in different ways. This term includes the condition in which the healthcare professional lives in situations in which the moral principles, which he or she considers, are incompatible with the reality of their work. The book’s chapters are written by a team from the university and hospital departments of Philosophy, Medical Ethics, Medicine and healthcare professionals. Besides the theoretical perspectives, the book presents clinical examples of moral distress that arise in the clinical practice of the nursing care of patients and families. The book is divided into nine chapters. In the introduction chapter, Ulrich and Grady define how this term arose its conceptual content and its practical applications in the field. This term expresses the feelings that health-care workers experience when exposed to situations that are inconsistent with their professional ethics. In this regard, studies have emerged that confirm that clinicians commonly suffer from physical and psychological health-related problems. The need for authorship emerged through the desire to reveal the healthcare professionals’ various opinions and practical experiences from their daily work. Consequently, the purpose of this book is: to recognize the seriousness of moral distress; give voice to a community of health professionals facing challenges; and to promote dialogue both within and outside academic and clinical communities. The book’s overall objective is to devise practical steps and strategies in order to reduce the severity of the repercussions from the Moral Distress. Therefore, the authors present a set of realistic examples facing health care workers and the everyday situations which they face. These situations present them with moral and psychological problems which, ultimately, affect the quality of the health care. This book seeks to challenge readers and attempts to answer the following questions: What do we know about Moral Distress and how it has been defined?, what do we know about Moral Distress from
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Department of Islamic Studies, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan
M. J. Thalgi
empirical studies?, how should we promote ethical climates in the healthcare workplace?, what are the lessons we can learn from experiencing moral distress?, what are the reasons that result in health care workers feeling the medical distress and how can they avoid these factors?. In the second chapter Lynn
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