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Health care professionals’ decisions must be both clinically sound and morally appropriate. As members of a profession,1 nurses are held to high moral standards and expected to place the good of their patients above their own self interest. Making decisions consistent with high moral standards requires the capacity not only to make these decisions but also to communicate them through words and/or behavior.
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Kopala, B. (2004). The Influence of Pressure on Nurses’ Moral Capacity. In: Thomasma, D.C., Weisstub, D.N. (eds) The Variables of Moral Capacity. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 21. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2552-5_12
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