Moral Reasoning at Work

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Clarifying the Language of Clinician Distress

“…These are difficult and, at times, deeply challenging decisions because more than 1 answer is morally defensible, but none leads to an ideal outcome. 6 Resolving dilemmas is an expected part of medical practice. Clinicians must be educated about when and how to initiate team discussions and ethics consults because, although expected, these situations are nonetheless extraordinarily difficult.…”

Moral distress of medical family therapists and their physician colleagues during the transition to COVID‐19

“…Dean et al (2020) suggest that the literature "discriminate among the terms moral dilemmas, moral distress and moral injury, rather than simply discussing burnout" (Dean et al, 2020, p. 923). Moral dilemmas occur when clinicians inevitably face difficult decisions where more than one answer is morally defensible but none leads to an ideal outcome (Kvalnes, 2019). He goes on to explain that facing numerous moral dilemmas can lead to experiencing "moral residue," or unresolved emotional and psychological conflicts.…”

Ethics of mortgage advisers in the Netherlands: Professional attitudes and moral dilemmas

“…Living in a pluriform society in which there is no self-evident collective morality, this seems logical. A moral dilemma is a situation in which someone has to make a complicated choice between two different moral requirements, or stakeholder interests, that point toward two different solutions, with the result that every choice violates some moral value (Kvalnes, 2019;McConnell, 2018). Someone facing a dilemma must decide which moral value to prioritize, and "whichever action is taken it will offend an important moral value" (Maclagan, 2003, p. 22).…”

“…Someone facing a dilemma must decide which moral value to prioritize, and "whichever action is taken it will offend an important moral value" (Maclagan, 2003, p. 22). It is a controversial issue in moral philosophy whether moral dilemmas actually exist (Dubbink, 2018;Monge, 2015;Overeem, 2017), but at the same time, they are widely acknowledged as a real and frequently existing problem in applied philosophy, especially in business ethics (Brenkert, 2009;Kvalnes, 2019Kvalnes, , 2020.…”