Moral distress and avoidance behavior in nurses working in critical care and noncritical care units.

Nurses facing impediments to what they perceive as moral practice may experience moral distress. The purpose of this descriptive, cross-sectional study was to determine similarities and differences in moral distress and avoidance behavior between critical care nurses and non-critical care nurses. Sixty-eight critical care and 28 non-critical care nurses completed the Moral Distress Scale and Impact of Event Scale (IES).

Documentation of preventive education and screening for osteoporosis.

The purpose of this study was to identify provider documentation practices related to osteoporosis prevention and screening for women aged 40 to 65 years and to determine whether documentation practices differ by type of provider. The setting was an obstetric/gynecologic clinic of a large metropolitan health maintenance organization in Minnesota. One hundred fifty medical records were reviewed for documentation addressing calcium intake, vitamin D intake, exercise, hormone replacement therapy (HRT), and bone mineral densitometry.