Generating situations of Moral Distress in Primary Care Nurses

• Published in: Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem 2019-01, Vol.72 (1), p.35-42
• Main Authors: Barth, Priscila Orlandi, Ramos, Flávia Regina Souza, Barlem, Edison Luiz Devos, Rennó, Heloíza Maria Siqueira, Brehmer, Laura Cavalcanti de Farias, Rocha, Jéssica Mendes
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Adult; Agotamiento Profesional; Atención Primaria de Salud; Brazil; Compassion Fatigue - etiology; Compassion Fatigue - psychology; Condiciones de Trabajo; Enfermeras; Ethics, Nursing; Female; Health services; Humans; Male; Medical ethics; Moral; Nurses; NURSING; Nursing care; Occupational stress; Primary care; Primary Health Care - methods; Primary Health Care - standards; Qualitative Research; Stress, Psychological - etiology; Stress, Psychological - psychology; Surveys and Questionnaires; Values; Working conditions
• ISSN: 0034-7167; 1984-0446; 1984-0446
• DOI: 10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0378

To analyze the situations generating Moral Distress in Primary Care nurses from different regions of Brazil. Qualitative research, with 13 nurses of the Brazilian Primary Health Care, through a semi-structured interview and submitted to the Discursive Textual Analysis, with the resources of the software ATLAS.ti 7.0. They are presented in four categories, relating the Moral Distress to the professional; health services; users and conflicts in professional practice. By assuming ethical and political values as guides to their action, nurses give greater visibility to the moral content of many problems and weaknesses that could be seen only by the bias of working conditions.