An Introduction to Moral Distress - Michael Dunn
Channel: NUS CBmE
Date: 02/01/2024

In the coming months, our CENTRES team and esteemed guest lecturers will explore clinical ethics beyond more commonly debated themes, with the first set of 4 videos discussing the topic of 'moral distress'.

In this video, A/Prof Michael Dunn from the Centre for Biomedical Ethics delivers a conceptual account of Moral Distress using the analytic method. Definitions of moral distress are many - some are narrow, and some broad. But capturing the necessary and sufficient conditions of the concept can enable a more comprehensive understanding. 

Here are some relevant readings:
~ Jameton A. Nursing Practice: The Ethical Issues. Prentice-Hall, 1984. [https://books.google.com.sg/books/about/Nursing_Practice.html?id=whFtAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y]
~ McCarthy J and Gastmans C. Moral distress: a review of the argument-based nursing ethics literature. Nursing Ethics, 2015; 22(1):131-52. 
[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0969733014557139?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed]
~ Morley G et al. What is 'moral distress'? A narrative synthesis of the literature. Nursing Ethics, 2019; 26(3):646-662. 
[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/28990446/]

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