Karen Klotz is a research associate in the project “Requests for Assisted Suicide from Elderly People in Inpatient and Outpatient Long-Term Care – Professional Care and Suicide Prevention. She graduated with a B.Sc. in General Nursing from University College Cork (Ireland) in 2019 and earned her M.A. in Nursing Science from Esslingen University of Applied Sciences in 2023. She is currently a doctoral candidate within the Attention research project.
Doctoral Project:
As part of her cumulative doctoral project, she focuses on the topic Moral Distress and Moral Self-Efficacy among Nurses in Long-Term Care When Confronted with Desires to Die” (working title). The dissertation includes four scientific studies: a systematic review, the translation and adaptation of a survey instrument, qualitative focus groups, and a qualitative-descriptive interview study.
The overarching aim of the dissertation is to explore the significance of the specific moral challenges faced by nurses when confronted with desires to die – including requests for assisted suicide. It further seeks to analyze how these experiences affect the nurses’ moral integrity and contribute to moral distress. In this context, the project investigates how moral self-efficacy influences the experience of moral distress among nurses in inpatient and outpatient long-term care.
The overarching research question is: How do (older adults) desires to die and nurses’ moral self-efficacy influence the experience of nurses’ moral distress in long-term care settings?
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