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Moral Distress and Advanced Practice Nursing: The Need for Morally Habitable Work Environments

Comment on “Moral Distress in Uninsured Health Care” by Anita Nivens and Janet Buelow

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  1. Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, 155 St. College Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 1P8, Canada

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The original article by Anita Nivens and Janet Buelow, published in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 10(1): 123–125, can be located at DOI 10.1007/s11673-013-9425-z.

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Beavis, N. Moral Distress and Advanced Practice Nursing: The Need for Morally Habitable Work Environments. Bioethical Inquiry 10, 425–426 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-013-9462-7

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