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- Title
Moral Distress as Moral Heuristic Missing the Mark.
- Authors
Reed, Pamela G.
- Abstract
I propose that moral distress may function as a moral heuristic, and one that misses its mark in signifying a fundamental source for nurses' moral suffering. Epistemic injustice is an insidious workplace wrongdoing that is glossed over or avoided in explicit explanations for nurse moral suffering and is substituted by an emphasis on the nurse's own wrongdoing. I discuss reasons and evidence for considering moral distress as a moral heuristic that obfuscates the role of epistemic injustice as a fundamental constraint on nurses' moral reasoning underlying moral suffering.
- Subjects
HEALTH literacy; MEDICAL logic; PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience; PSYCHOLOGICAL distress; SOCIAL justice; WORK environment; ETHICS; MOTIVATION (Psychology); NURSES' attitudes; THEORY of knowledge; PHENOMENOLOGY; JUDGMENT (Psychology); SOCIAL support; AFFECT (Psychology); SUFFERING; COGNITION
- Publication
Nursing Science Quarterly, 2024, Vol 37, Issue 3, p230
- ISSN
0894-3184
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/08943184241247003