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Wendy Austin
Researcher at University of Alberta
Publications - 57
Citations - 2108
Wendy Austin is an academic researcher from University of Alberta. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Nursing ethics. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 57 publications receiving 1933 citations.
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Moral Distress in Healthcare Practice: The Situation of Nurses
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Unable to answer the call of our patients: mental health nurses' experience of moral distress.
TL;DR: The experience of moral distress related by nurses working in mental healthcare settings who believed that lack of resources leads to dispiritedness, lack of respect, and absence of recognition which severely diminished their ability to provide quality care are described.
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Moral distress and the contemporary plight of health professionals.
TL;DR: The author claims that health professionals are increasingly put in peril by healthcare reform that undermines their efficacy and jeopardizes ethical engagement with those in their care.
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The ethics of everyday practice: healthcare environments as moral communities.
TL;DR: The call is made for a shift in thinking about ethics in healthcare, with attention to the institutional processes that shape and constrain ethical dialogue and practice.
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Compassion Fatigue: The Experience of Nurses
TL;DR: The results of a qualitative research project on nurses' experience of compassion fatigue are presented in this paper, where participants described a change in their practice by which they began to shield and distance themselves from the suffering of patients and families.