Moral distress: challenges for an autonomous nursing professional practice

• Autor(a) principal: Barlem,Edison Luiz Devos
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Lunardi,Valéria Lerch, Tomaschewski,Jamila Geri, Lunardi,Guilherme Lerch, Lunardi Filho,Wilson Danilo, Schwonke,Camila Rose Guadalupe Barcelos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0080-62342013000200033
• topic: Nursing; Professional practice; Ethics, nursing; Stress psychological; Health advocacy

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.