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In the healthcare literature, moral injury is the accumulation of negative effects by continued exposure to morally distressing situations. [31] In 2000 the concept of moral distress being generated by systemic issues was called "the ethical canary" [32] to draw attention to the sensation of moral distress signaling a need for systemic change.
Nursing ethics is a branch of applied ethics that concerns itself with activities in the field of nursing. Nursing ethics shares many principles with medical ethics, such as beneficence, non-maleficence, and respect for autonomy. It can be distinguished by its emphasis on relationships, human dignity and collaborative care.
Disgust is argued to be a specific response to certain things or behaviors that are dangerous or undesirable from an evolutionary perspective. One example is things that increase the risk of an infectious disease such as spoiled foods, dead bodies, other forms of microbiological decomposition , a physical appearance suggesting sickness or poor ...
The second dimension is moral type, which is the agent/patient framework. [13] These components correspond to the moral event, whether helping or harming, and the exemplars involved, which would be the agent or the patient. Each quadrant illustrates how moral events can have distinct moral emotions attached to them based on the exemplar ...
[9] [10] And since moral issues are extremely prevalent throughout nursing, it is important to be able to recognize and critically respond to situations that warrant and/or necessitate an ethical decision. A nurse promotes for and strives to protect the rights, safety, and health of all patients.
Joan Tronto argues that the definition of "ethic of care" is ambiguous due in part to it not playing a central role in moral theory. [25] She argues that considering moral philosophy is engaged with human goodness, then care would appear to assume a significant role in this type of philosophy. [25]
Socio-moral disgust is different from core disgust. In the 2006 study done by Simpson and colleagues, there was a divergence found in disgust responses between the core elicitors of disgust and the socio-moral elicitors of disgust, suggesting that the makeup of core and socio-moral disgust may be different emotional constructs. [66]
These four values are not ranked in order of importance or relevance and they all encompass values pertaining to medical ethics. [4] However, a conflict may arise leading to the need for hierarchy in an ethical system, such that some moral elements overrule others with the purpose of applying the best moral judgement to a difficult medical ...