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- Title
Moral Courage and the Nurse Leader.
- Authors
Edmonson, Cole
- Abstract
Today's nurse leaders practice in very complex environments. This complexity leads to value conflicts and creates the potential for moral distress. Jameton's sentinel work framed the concept of moral distress as arising when one knows the morally right thing to do, but cannot do so because of organizational constraints. In this article the author reviews sources of moral distress among nurse leaders, discusses the nurse leader's responsibility for demonstrating and supporting moral courage, identifies threats to moral courage among nurse leaders, offers strategies to promote moral courage, and makes recommendations for the continuing development of moral courage.
- Subjects
AMERICAN Nurses Association; CORPORATE culture; COURAGE; ETHICS; INDUSTRIAL relations; LEADERSHIP; MEDICAL research personnel; NURSE administrators; NURSES; NURSING practice; NURSING research; NURSING ethics; RESPONSIBILITY; WORK environment; ETHICAL decision making; AMERICAN Association of Critical-Care Nurses
- Publication
Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 2010, Vol 15, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
1091-3734
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3912/OJIN.Vol15No03Man05