Moral distress among nursing professors: The exercise of parrhesia.

Aline Marcelino Ramos Toescher Káren Mendes Jorge de Souza Jamila Gere Tomaschewski Barlem Janaina Sena CastanheiraLaurelize Pereira Rocha

Published in: Nursing ethics (2020)

When the nursing professors in this study acknowledge elements in the power structure that hinder their actions, they express parrhesia, as an essential virtue in an attempt to modify unsymmetrical power relations that can trigger moral distress.

Keyphrases

mental health
healthcare
quality improvement
high intensity
decision making