moral distress
nounEtymology
The term was first used in clinical nursing literature in the 1980s and first formally described by Andrew Jameton in 1984.
Definitions
A form of emotional or psychological distress that occurs when a person knows the…
A form of emotional or psychological distress that occurs when a person knows the ethically appropriate action to take but is prevented from acting due to external constraints, such as policy restrictions or an insufficiently powerful role.
- Moral distress arises when one knows the right thing to do, but institutional constraints make it nearly impossible to pursue the right course of action.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for moral distress. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA