Moral distress: challenges for an autonomous nursing professional practice.

Constantly experiencing limiting situations that hinder a professional practice coherent with its principles - of autonomy and advocacy of users' interests -, and often conditioned to experience moral distress, the nursing profession plays a prominent role in the current health model because it has the characteristic of managing the care rendered to users in a perspective of social inclusion, both in the basic health network and in hospitals. Aiming at carrying out a reflection on the nursing practice and the difficulties present in its work routine, and considering its characteristics as a profession, this article sought to make a reflection between the practice of nursing and the numerous moral challenges imposed by the routine, resulting, in many cases, in a value crisis that can reverberate directly on the quality of the service rendered, and in abandonment of the ideals of advocacy for users.

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Edison Luiz Devos Barlem, Valéria Lerch Lunardi, Jamila Geri Tomaschewski, Guilherme Lerch Lunardi, Wilson Danilo Lunardi Filho, Camila Rose Guadalupe Barcelos Schwonke. Moral distress: challenges for an autonomous nursing professional practice. Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P. 2013 Apr;47(2):506-10

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PMID: 23743922

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