Rational The interest in complexity of nursing care has grown in science and practice in
recent years because of changed patient profiles and higher average levels of patient acuity …

Background Frontline nurses who care for patients with COVID-19 work in stressful
environments, and many inevitably struggle with unanticipated ethical issues. Little is known …

Nursing Ethics and Professional Responsibility in Advanced Practice, Fourth Edition,
remains the only comprehensive textbook available on the ethical issues faced by APNs …

Background: Complexity in health care environments causes practice problems. Nurses
bear responsibility for recognizing, addressing, and preventing ethical problems …

To enhance patient care in the inevitable conditions of complexity that exist in contemporary
healthcare, collaboration among healthcare professions is critical. While each profession …

Ethical conflicts among nurses can undermine nurses' psychological comfort and
compromise the quality of patient care. In the last decade, several empirical studies on the …

This book calls for a re-examination of traditional approaches to foundational discourses in
health care ethics through a lens of moral distress. In contemporary western society, there is …

Background: The Clinical Ethics Residency for Nurses was offered selectively to nurses
affiliated with two academic medical centers to increase confidence in ethical decision …

An expansive and growing body of literature documents the problem of nurses' moral
distress when they are unable to carry out actions that they perceive to be in the best …

Given the complexity of contemporary healthcare environments, it is vital that nurses are
able to recognize and address ethical issues as they arise. Though dilemmas and …