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Question

Nursing students are faced with moral distress events during their work in the clinical setting. Moral distress according to Jameton (1984) is defined as a phenomenon in which one knows the right action to take but is constrained from taking it. In the clinical setting, students and experienced nurses have identified a moral distress event when patients are not cared for in a professional manner, or nursing procedures are done incorrectly, or unprofessional communication occurs between nurses and other members of the health care team.

1. How did this event make you feel initially?

2. Which of the nine provisions from the nursing code of ethics did you feel was violated?

3. In reflecting on this event, discuss implications of power, oppression, and disparities as they may have affected the outcome of your situation.

4. Apply the AACN's suggested approach of using the 4 A's (Ask, Affirm, Assess, Act) to address your moral distressing event. Appraise whether this approach might have been effective or not.

5. Summarize how you plan to recognize early on and address moral distressing events in the future.