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Essential EthicsAuthor: The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne
Essential Ethics, from the Childrens Bioethics Centre at The Royal Childrens Hospital (Melbourne, Australia) presents discussion of challenging cases that come up when treating children. Hear the most up-to-date thinking and draw knowledge from the ethics toolkit. After a decade or more of experience our team of world-recognised ethicists takes on the hardest cases. Essential Ethics is informative, interesting and always relevant. Hosted by Professor John Massie, a clinician and bioethicist at The Royal Childrens Hospital, Melbourne. Language: en Genres: Health & Fitness, Medicine, Philosophy, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Moral distress
Thursday, 10 April, 2025
Moral distress was first defined in the nursing literature (Jameton, 1984) as "the experience of knowing the right thing to do while being in a situation in which it is nearly impossible to do it". This was seen as a departure from the somewhat academic philosophical concepts of bioethical principles of the time by placing value on emotions and compassion in guiding moral action. Since then, there has been considerable work in unpacking the elements of moral distress and thinking about the implications for staff and healthcare systems and, importantly, how we might go about tackling the problem.
