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Karen Trotochaud1, Heather Fitzgerald, Angela D Knackstedt
1Karen Trotochaud is a nurse ethicist at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. Heather Fitzgerald is a clinical nurse ethicist at Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, and Angela D. Knackstedt is the health literacy and bioethics clinical coordinator in the Office of Equity and Diversity and the Pediatric Bioethics Center, Children's Mercy Kansas City, Kansas City, MO. Contact author: Karen Trotochaud, karen.trotochaud@choa.org. The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
Abstract:
A promising practice to promote moral agency in health care settings.
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