Determinants of moral distress in medical and surgical nurses at an adult acute tertiary care hospital

Journal of Nursing Management

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 360-373

  Rice, Elizabeth M ^a   Rady, Mohamed Y ^b,c   Hamrick, Arreta ^a   Verheijde, Joseph L ^a   Pendergast, Debra K ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Mayo Clinic Hospital ^*

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Burnout; Ethical conflict; Medical nurses; Moral distress; Surgical nurses

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BURNOUT; CONFLICT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHICS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORALITY; NURSING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERIOPERATIVE NURSING; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORALS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PERIOPERATIVE NURSING; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES;

EID: 40449142722     PISSN: 09660429     EISSN: 1365263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2834.2007.00798.x     Document Type: Article

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