She added other common scenarios are bullying among healthcare staff and social media situations. The need for moral courage in the healthcare sector arises when people have to choose one out of their moral and ethical values and the negative consequences of following their values. In an article out last week, bioethicicsts Alyssa Burgart and Holly Tabor discuss the recent Covid-19 outbreak and the moral courage shown by frontline healthcare professionals. Table 2 presents critical checkpoints to assist healthcare professionals demonstrate moral courage in healthcare settings. Moral courage is overcoming these fears and speaking up for the patient’s best interest,” says Stokes. My colleagues and I in hospice and home health settings are entering patients’ homes to keep them out of overcrowded hospitals and ensure good symptom management and support. In many situations, moral courage shown by a nurse becomes instrumental in saving and shaping a patient’s life. Demonstrating moral courage when confronted with ethical misconduct is critical to good professional practice whether in a clinical setting, the classroom, a research laboratory, or the boardroom (Day, 2009). It is no secret that patients get hurt when receiving health care. 45,000 of us will die each year because of a lack of healthcare. Lachman considers the most frequent issues in which nurses must exert moral courage are end-of-life situations, including advanced directives and informed consent. Along with new interest in virtue ethics in healthcare, interest in moral courage as a virtue and a valued element of human morality has increased. Moral courage involves standing up for your values, ethics, and beliefs, even at the risk of your reputation, emotional anxiety, social isolation, or employment. How to develop moral courage In order to display moral courage, the ethical awareness and sensitivity to analyze and respond to a moral problem. According to Murray (2007), understanding the importance of moral courage aids healthcare leaders to demonstrate moral courage when they face ethical challenges and the creation of an ethical environment. Moral courage, or “the ability to take action for moral reasons, despite the risk of adverse consequences ” has been paramount to the response to this outbreak. Nurses need moral courage in all areas and at all levels of nursing. What Is Moral Courage? In a health care facility where all hopes of an individual’s life and death are trusted in the hands of the health care personnel, negligent and dishonorable … Moral courage is depicted by those individuals who, despite adversity and professional risk in their line of work, decide to act upon their ethical values even during challenging ethical dilemmas (Khoshmehr et al., 2020). According to WHO, one in ten patients are harmed whilst receiving health care and 43 MILLION patient safety incidents happen every year around the world. Areas where moral courage issues arise include clinical practice, research and academia. If we define moral courage as a willingness to put one’s self in harm’s way in order to do what’s right, these are today’s moral exemplars. They may also worry about being bullied by their co-workers. Table 2. Moral courage is seen as a critical virtue for nurses and crucial to safe and professional practice. In Seattle, epidemiologist Dr. Helen Chu demonstrated great moral courage by reporting critical data to health officials despite instructions from federal officials to remain silent. Nevertheless, what the concept of moral courage means in nursing contexts remains ambiguous. This is a moral outrage, a moral disgrace and a moral ineptitude that is no longer tolerable. It is the ability to endure distress inherent in difficult situations when a nurse needs to do what is right. 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