Sökning: "moral distress"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 16 avhandlingar innehållade orden moral distress.
1. Ethical Competence and Moral Distress in the Health Care Sector : A Prospective Evaluation of Ethics Rounds
Sammanfattning : Ongoing structural and financial changes in the health care sector have resulted in increased risks for ethical dilemmas and moral distress. It is purported that increased ethical competence will help staff manage ethical dilemmas and hence decrease moral distress. LÄS MER
2. The moral enterprise in intensive care nursing
Sammanfattning : The aims of this thesis were to explore nurses' experiences of stress in the ICU (I), to analyze experiences of moral concerns in intensive care nursing from the perspective of relational ethics (II), to describe the synthesis of the concept of moral stress and to identify preconditions for moral stress (III) and to analyse and describe lived experiences of support in situations characterized by critical care situations and moral stress in intensive care (IV).The design was exploratory and descriptive. LÄS MER
3. Moral distress and ethical climate in pediatric oncology care
Sammanfattning : Background: Despite the high survival rates, childhood cancer still is a life-threatening disease. Many ethical dilemmas and constraints challenge healthcare professionals who provide care for these children, causing moral distress and reducing the quality of care. LÄS MER
4. Encountering ethical problems and moral distress as a nurse : Experiences, contributing factors and handling
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis was to explore and describe what nurses find ethically problematic and morally distressing in their work, the factors contributing to the arising of ethically problematic situations and the actions reported taken in order to handle them, thus creating an ethical climate.Descriptive as well as correlational and exploratory designs were employed in the four papers on which this thesis is based. LÄS MER
5. Essays on Credit Risk
Sammanfattning : This dissertation covers the issues related to credit risk that stem from the recent financial crisis and that are concerned by investors, financial intermediaries, and governments. The results of the research have important implications for asset managers, such as using the information from the credit risk market to rebalance stock portfolios, and for policy makers in regulating or bailing out banks. LÄS MER