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The Moral Obligation of Nurse Leaders:: COVID-19
The international pandemic of COVID-19 is unprecedented. Nurse leaders play a pivotal role in balancing the needs of their staff with the needs of the patients. Maintaining one’s moral compass during critical decision times is of the utmost importance. They do so to minimize the negative impact and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7167551/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32313516 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mnl.2020.04.008 |
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description | The international pandemic of COVID-19 is unprecedented. Nurse leaders play a pivotal role in balancing the needs of their staff with the needs of the patients. Maintaining one’s moral compass during critical decision times is of the utmost importance. They do so to minimize the negative impact and maximize success for all key stakeholders and avoid moral distress. Transparent communication that is truthful, mindful, and relevant is only one of the competencies necessary to accomplish this. This article explores these challenges and offers some suggestions on staying resilient and upholding one’s moral obligations. |
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spelling | pubmed-71675512020-04-20 The Moral Obligation of Nurse Leaders:: COVID-19 Prestia, Angela S. Nurse Lead Article The international pandemic of COVID-19 is unprecedented. Nurse leaders play a pivotal role in balancing the needs of their staff with the needs of the patients. Maintaining one’s moral compass during critical decision times is of the utmost importance. They do so to minimize the negative impact and maximize success for all key stakeholders and avoid moral distress. Transparent communication that is truthful, mindful, and relevant is only one of the competencies necessary to accomplish this. This article explores these challenges and offers some suggestions on staying resilient and upholding one’s moral obligations. Mosby 2020-08 2020-04-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7167551/ /pubmed/32313516 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mnl.2020.04.008 Text en 2020 by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Prestia, Angela S. The Moral Obligation of Nurse Leaders:: COVID-19 |
title | The Moral Obligation of Nurse Leaders:: COVID-19 |
title_full | The Moral Obligation of Nurse Leaders:: COVID-19 |
title_fullStr | The Moral Obligation of Nurse Leaders:: COVID-19 |
title_full_unstemmed | The Moral Obligation of Nurse Leaders:: COVID-19 |
title_short | The Moral Obligation of Nurse Leaders:: COVID-19 |
title_sort | moral obligation of nurse leaders:: covid-19 |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7167551/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32313516 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mnl.2020.04.008 |
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