Moral distress in undergraduate nursing students: A systematic review

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 523-534

  Sasso, Loredana ^a   Bagnasco, Annamaria ^a   Bianchi, Monica ^a   Bressan, Valentina ^a   Carnevale, Franco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ethical dilemmas; Moral distress; Nurse; Nurse education; Undergraduate nursing students

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; MORALITY; NURSING CARE; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION, NURSING, BACCALAUREATE; HUMANS; MORALS; NURSING CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS, NURSING;

EID: 84991448032     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: 14770989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0969733015574926     Document Type: Review

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