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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"moral courage"”.
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Perioperative Nurses Perceptions of Moral Courage
… of these threats and the likelihood to act with moral courage have not been documented. Design: This descriptive correlational study examined moral courage in response to threat to patient safety. The moral courage model is based on Lazarus and Folkman’s theory of stress and coping. The Dillman, …
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Who Acts? Self-Identity and Moral Courage in Nursing
Nurses who work in critical care face a unique array of ethical decisions in the course of their practice. This study aimed to examine the source of the ethical decision making of individual nurses using a virtue ethics framework as a starting point. The design used a philosophical hermeneutic …
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Moral Courage: A Requirement for Ethical Decision Making in Nursing Home Leadership
Moral courage will no longer be an option for Nursing Home Administrators (NHA) to lead ethically with the projections for the future needs of healthcare services and the governmental involvement in containing the costs of care in the United States. The estimated increase in the 65 year and older …
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BRIDGING THE GAP: INSTILLING MORAL COURAGE AND IMPELLING MORAL ACTION IN THE PUBLIC SAFETY SPHERE
… agencies are largely contingent on the moral behavior of their workforces. Recent and historical instances of moral failure have reduced public trust in law enforcement organizations and undermined their missions. A better understanding of the determinants of moral behavior and drivers …
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Exploring Moral Courage When Resolving Economic and Social Tensions in Social Enterprises: A Mixed Methods Study
… of capitalism, Smith envisioned a model in which morality could be achieved through an economic-based design. Today, social enterprises embrace the frictions of making decisions between profit and purpose, business and society, and stability and change. Making decisions in these tension-filled …
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Examining Nurses' Moral Distress, Acts of Moral Courage, and Influence of Ethical Climate in Caring for COVID-19 Patients During the Pandemic
… the nurses in the United States (U.S.) and their moral actions taken in the care of COVID-19 patients. Since March 2020, the U.S. has recorded over 103 million COVID-19 cases and over 1.1 million COVID-19 deaths (CDC, 2023). Healthcare workers comprised nearly 1.2 million of the cases and 2,500 of …
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Giving Voice To The Values Of Nurses
… in Labor and Delivery and Radiology face moral challenges in the workplace. It can be difficult for theses nurses to take morally courageous action when they lack the knowledge, skills and confidence to do so successfully. The goal of this DNP project was to enable nurses in labor and …
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Stewardship: Theoretical Development and Empirical Test of its Determinants
… as interpersonal and institutional trust and moral courage, I put forth a behavioral leadership model of stewardship. Within this model, I argue that issues of psychological ownership and power in the organizational context are central to stewardship concerns. Additionally, I present two …
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Exploring the Impact of Leadership Values and Practices to Support Equity and Social Justice in an Urban School
… contexts of marginalized populations; (c) moral courage for all members of the school; (d) equity as an initiative or program; (e) resistance to deep equity work. From these themes, I devise three recommendations to support substantial and better-aligned work to increase equity and social …
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An exploration of burnout, moral distress, and moral injury: A nationwide survey of their influence on well-being in physical therapists
… decreased quality of care, and poor well-being. Moral injury may lead to poor well-being as current burnout interventions have limited effectiveness. The purpose of this study is to examine whether burnout and/or moral injury are related to physical therapist intention to leave their job or …
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Analyzing the critical success factors for two distinct social movement case studies : climate change & the opening of U.S.-Cuba policy
… how the use of narrative, selfinterest, power, moral courage and strategy are being employed. The analysis sheds light on extensive interviews that were conducted with 20 leaders that are part, or have formed part, of these two movements, and focuses on the strategic challenges and opportunities …
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Raising concerns about poor nursing care: the moral and professional responsibility of nursing students and registered nurses
… the world. In addition, despite clear legal, moral and professional guidance and expectation, those who witness it sometimes fail to raise a concern, leaving vulnerable patients at risk. It provides some of the earliest explanations for this phenomenon among student nurses, and argues that …
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"Character Types In Sir Philip Sidney's ""new Arcadia"" And In Italian Romance Epic"
… epic, Sidney develops them in the manner of the moralist and anticipating the novelist, focusing not on action itself, but on the moral significance of the action and thus on the characters' inner lives. Consequently, the heroes and heroines of Sidney are more virtuous and more conscious of the …
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Do Student Nurses experience a Theory-Practice Gap? A Case Study
… how the theories of conformity, belonging, moral distress and moral courage could be used to explain and explore the behaviours of the students and how students might seek consonance for any cognitive dissonance experienced. The study findings recommend providing students with a range of …