In this episode, Danica and Monica are joined by Monica’s colleague and former PhD supervisor, Dr. Jessica Polzer. Together, Monica and Jessica speak to the theoretical origins of ‘moral distress‘ as a concept within nursing scholarship and discuss the role of ‘counter stories’ as a way to diagnose moral distress as produced by institutional constraints.
Content Warnings
(37:26 – 38:51): Story of nurse in distress while caring for a patient who was septic and in need of critical care
References
(17:15): Andrew Jameton’s definition of ‘moral distress’
Jameton, A. (1984). Nursing practice: The ethical issues. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
(17:30): Elizabeth Peter & Joan Liaschenko’s perspective on ‘moral distress’
Peter, E., & Liaschenko, J. (2004). Perils of proximity: a spatiotemporal analysis of moral distress and moral ambiguity. Nursing Inquiry, 11(4), 218-225.
Peter, E., & Liaschenko, J. (2013). Moral Distress Reexamined: A Feminist Interpretation of Nurses' Identities, Relationships, and Responsibilities. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 10(3). DOI: 10.1007/s11673-013-9456-5
(47:34): Monica Molinaro and Jessica Polzer on ‘counter stories’
Molinaro, M., Polzer, J., Laliberte Rudman, D., Savundranayagam, M. (2023). "I can't be the nurse I want to be": Counter-stories of moral distress in nurses' narratives of pediatric oncology caregiving. Social Science & Medicine. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115677
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