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Health Care Ethics through the Lens of Moral Distress

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Authors:
  1. Kristen Jones-Bonofiglio

    1. School of Nursing/Centre for Health Care Ethics, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada

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  • The first book to cover moral distress from a personal perspective
  • Acknowledges health care professionals as wounded healers who are uniquely positioned to identify complex ethical issues in their practices through moral distress experiences
  • Includes previously unpublished research on moral distress experiences in Canadian contexts

Part of the book series: The International Library of Bioethics (ILB, volume 82)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Chasing the Science

    • Kristen Jones-Bonofiglio
    Pages 1-19

  3. Understanding Complex Human Responses

    • Kristen Jones-Bonofiglio
    Pages 21-38

  4. A Socio-Ecological Perspective

    • Kristen Jones-Bonofiglio
    Pages 39-52

  5. Acute Care Contexts

    • Kristen Jones-Bonofiglio
    Pages 53-66

  6. Community Health Care Contexts

    • Kristen Jones-Bonofiglio
    Pages 67-85

  7. Personal and Professional Identities

    • Kristen Jones-Bonofiglio
    Pages 87-100

  8. More Than Moral Distress

    • Kristen Jones-Bonofiglio
    Pages 101-110

  9. Ethics, Leadership, and Compassion

    • Kristen Jones-Bonofiglio
    Pages 111-121

  10. Moral Courage

    • Kristen Jones-Bonofiglio
    Pages 123-136

  11. Navigating Moral Distress

    • Kristen Jones-Bonofiglio
    Pages 137-153

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 155-158
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About this book

This book provides a bridge between the theory to practice gap in contemporary health care ethics. It explores the messiness of everyday ethical issues and validates the potential impacts on health care professionals as wounded healers who regularly experience close proximity to suffering and pain. This book speaks to why ethics matters on a personal level and how moral distress experiences can be leveraged instead of hidden. The book offers contributions to both scholarship and the profession. Nurses, physicians, social workers, allied health care professionals, as well as academics and students will benefit from this book. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Nursing/Centre for Health Care Ethics, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada

    Kristen Jones-Bonofiglio

About the author

Dr. Kristen Dawn Jones-Bonofiglio, PhD, RN, is Assistant Professor at Lakehead University School of Nursing and Director of Lakehead University Centre for Health Care Ethics, in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. She holds graduate degrees in public health (nursing specialization) and educational studies (cognition and learning specialization) with theses work on moral distress and everyday ethical issues among practitioners in community health care settings. Her scholarship activities are diverse and include: mental health and addictions, well-being and resilience, moral distress and ethics, and innovative pedagogical approaches. Dr. Jones-Bonofiglio’s clinical background includes acute care and correctional nursing practice. For over a decade she has taught undergraduate nursing students, and for the past few years also taught in graduate nursing courses and continuing professional development programs. As of 2017, she is a Fellow of the Associated Medical Services (AMS) with research onself-compassion in nursing. Dr. Jones-Bonofiglio lives in Northwestern Ontario with her husband, John.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Health Care Ethics through the Lens of Moral Distress

  • Authors: Kristen Jones-Bonofiglio

  • Series Title: The International Library of Bioethics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56156-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56155-0Published: 28 August 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56158-1Published: 28 August 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56156-7Published: 27 August 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2662-9186

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-9194

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 158

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Bioethics, Nursing Ethics

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