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  • Moral distress as experienced by hospital social workers in South Korea and Australia

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    Author(s)
    Fronek, Patricia
    Briggs, Lynne
    Kim, Myung Hun
    Han, Hye Bin
    Val, Quinn
    Kim, Sungmin
    McAuliffe, Donna
    Griffith University Author(s)
    McAuliffe, Donna A.
    Fronek, Patricia
    Briggs, Lynne
    Quinn, Val
    Year published
    2017
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    Abstract
    This exploratory, qualitative research explored the ethical problems faced by hospital social workers in South Korea and Australia, and what and who influenced their decision making using a focus group design. Although dilemmas of boundaries, confidentiality, self-determination, and other complex scenarios found in practice were identified, moral distress, a consequence of the unresolvable conflicts, dominated participants’ narratives. This was particularly the case for the Korean social workers in this sample. A thematic analysis of the data yielded three main themes: ‘Under pressure—“It’s very uncomfortable”’; ‘Failing our ...
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    This exploratory, qualitative research explored the ethical problems faced by hospital social workers in South Korea and Australia, and what and who influenced their decision making using a focus group design. Although dilemmas of boundaries, confidentiality, self-determination, and other complex scenarios found in practice were identified, moral distress, a consequence of the unresolvable conflicts, dominated participants’ narratives. This was particularly the case for the Korean social workers in this sample. A thematic analysis of the data yielded three main themes: ‘Under pressure—“It’s very uncomfortable”’; ‘Failing our patients’; and ‘Coping and codes’.
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    Journal Title
    Social Work in Health Care
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2017.1347596
    Copyright Statement
    © 2017 Taylor & Francis (Routledge). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Social Work in Health Care on 19 Jul 2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/00981389.2017.1347596.
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    Subject
    Social work
    Clinical social work practice
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/342957
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