Frontiers of Nursing (Jan 2021)

Predictors of moral distress among nurses working in Jimma University Medical Center, South West Ethiopia

  • Beyaffers Habtam Abebaw,
  • Woldetsadik Marta Tessema,
  • Gizaw Admasu Belay

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2478/fon-2020-0046
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 4
pp. 369 – 377

Abstract

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Moral distress is characterized by biopsychosocial, cognitive, and behavioral effects experienced by clinicians when their values are compromised by internal or external constraints, which results in the inability to give the desired care to patients.

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