{"id":4840,"date":"2014-03-18T06:16:01","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T13:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=4840"},"modified":"2018-03-05T21:00:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T05:00:01","slug":"the-mary-dilemma-a-case-study-on-moral-distress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=4840","title":{"rendered":"The Mary dilemma – A case study on moral distress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newborn infant starved to death in Toronto hospital<\/h2>\n

One of the nurses who was caring for her today looked at me\u00a0with tears in her eyes and said “this is not right – if they took\u00a0 her home and didn’t feed her they would be charged – why is it okay\u00a0for us to do this?”<\/em><\/p>\n

Fr. Michael Della Penna, ofm*<\/a>\u00a0 and Francisca Burg-Feret*<\/a><\/p>\n

This paper begins with a case study describing the\u00a0perspective of a Catholic nurse who experienced moral distress while\u00a0observing the tragic death of a newborn infant named Baby Mary. The purpose\u00a0of this paper is to raise awareness and educate readers about the concept of\u00a0 moral distress and promote a greater understanding of the lived experience\u00a0of Catholic health care providers who undergo this trauma. It also provides an analysis and some recommendations for practice that can help health care professionals make good ethical choices in difficult situations based on\u00a0their faith.
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Newborn infant starved to death in Toronto hospital One of the nurses who was caring for her today looked at me\u00a0with tears in her eyes and said “this is not right – if they took\u00a0 her home and didn’t feed her they would be charged – why is it okay\u00a0for us to do this?” Fr. … Continue reading “The Mary dilemma – A case study on moral distress”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,162],"tags":[1205,184,1204,1207,1206,261,384],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-4840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-euthanasia","tag-francisca-burg-feret","tag-hospitals","tag-michael-della-penna","tag-moral-distress","tag-neonatal-intensive-care","tag-nurses","tag-ontario"],"yoast_head":"\r\nThe Mary dilemma - A case study on moral distress - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=4840\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Mary dilemma - 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