A study of the situations, features, and coping mechanisms experienced by irish psychiatric nurses experiencing moral distress

Perspectives in Psychiatric Care

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 209-220

  Deady, Rick ^a   McCarthy, Joan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Clinical decision making; Moral distress; Psychiatric nursing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFLICT; CONTROL; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR NURSE RELATION; ETHICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRELAND; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORALITY; NURSE ATTITUDE; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS, NURSING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; IRELAND; MALE; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; NURSE'S ROLE; PHYSICIAN-NURSE RELATIONS; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING;

EID: 77955081287     PISSN: 00315990     EISSN: 17446163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-6163.2010.00260.x     Document Type: Article

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