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(Kälvemark et al., 2004). ese studies suggest that increasingly,
moral distress needs to be understood within the context of ethical
decision making (Kälvemark et al., 2004). Giving voice to intuition
invites an exploration of specific environmental variables that influ-
ence the status of the situation from which moral distress arises.
Suppose, for instance, that the dean disagrees with the ruling of
the faculty member in refusing to accommodate the student’s desire
to take an online course to be able to continue working, and thus pay
for her education. Nevertheless, she feels compelled to go against her
intuition that the decision should be countered because she considers
having department chairs who feel empowered, ...