Main description:

This book provides a bridge between the theory to practice gap in contemporary health care ethics. It explores the messiness of everyday ethical issues and validates the potential impacts on health care professionals as wounded healers who regularly experience close proximity to suffering and pain. This book speaks to why ethics matters on a personal level and how moral distress experiences can be leveraged instead of hidden. The book offers contributions to both scholarship and the profession. Nurses, physicians, social workers, allied health care professionals, as well as academics and students will benefit from this book.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Moral Distress: The State of the Science.- Chapter 2. Moral Uncertainty and Moral Disorientation.- Chapter 3. Moral Distress and Acute Care Contexts.- Chapter 4. Moral Distress and Community Care Contexts.- Chapter 5. Moral Distress and Public Health Contexts.- Chapter 6. Personal and Professional Identity.- Chapter 7. Moral Conflict and Moral Injury.- Chapter 8. Moral Leadership and Compassion.- Chapter 9. Moral Resilience and Confidence.- Chapter 10. Navigating Moral Distress.