Distress morale e cure futili: indagine conoscitiva sulla percezione degli studenti infermieri

During the professional practice of every day, caregivers use a set of ethical rules that warrant morality and irreproachabilityof welfare deed they are guarantors to.Nevertheless, hyperspecialization of knowledge and the development of new technologies, steadily submit professionalsof wealth to inability to reconcile many times what “it is possible to do” to what “it is right to do” and“ethically correct” for patients, and that’s what potentially creates moral distress to the caregiver.Nurses who experience this moral distress, live a strong situation of discomfort, because they recognize the rightbehavior to have in a certain clinic situation but, due to several reasons, they can’t execute as they should, and theyare incline to practice against their professional values.The most of surveys about moral distress are all conducted on nurses. This analysis inquires all situations that producemoral conflict in lived of nursing students, related to all those situations that lie on the border between an ethicand conscientious Medicine, about the proportionality in the use of means used and burdensomeness or beneficenceof treatments for patients.It was carried out a phenomenological study by written semi-structured interviews on a purposeful sample of nursingstudents of a roman Campus. The texts of the interviews were analyzed with Giorgi’s method. The results showedthat moral distress occurs in experiential lived of a student who is already able to outline unpleasant situations,causes, effects, and in few cases, possible strategies to respond to the distress experienced in clinical settings.