title: An overview of ethics in maternal-child nursing.
abstract: Ethical issues across the childbearing year are multiple and complex. This article addresses ethical challenges facing maternal-child nurses and identifies strategies for making ethical decisions utilizing ethical principles and frameworks. Coping strategies for dealing with moral distress, how nurses demonstrate moral courage, and the attributes of an effective ethical decision maker are described. Ethical issues related to healthcare team relationships are discussed, with implications for nurses provided.
authors.affiliation: Lynn Clark Callister is a Professor Emerita at Brigham Young University College of Nursing. She can be reached via e-mail at Lynn_callister@byu.edu Tanya Sudia-Robinson is a Professor at Georgia Baptist College of Nursing of Mercer University. She can be reached via e-mail at Robinson_ts@mercer.edu.
authors.forename: Lynn Clark
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Callister
authors.forename: Tanya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sudia-Robinson
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003657:Decision Making; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007392:International Council of Nurses; D016389:Maternal-Child Nursing / Q000941:ethics*; D028681:Moral Obligations; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000941:ethics* / Q000523:psychology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D013315:Stress, Psychological