Moral distress occurs when someone feels constrained from acting on their ethical beliefs due to institutional or other external pressures. Moral distress is a significant challenge that may confront ...

With Covid-19 infection rates reaching unprecedented levels, hospitalization rates rapidly rising, and the holiday season approaching, healthcare professionals (as well as many of the rest of us) are ...

A common refrain heard among doctors today is that they would not encourage their children to become physicians. They note that burnout is at an all-time high, and the profession lacks the esteem it ...

A poster that was presented in the Eighth University Research Day at the Catholic University of America in 2023. Nurse Practitioners (NPs) working in the intensive care environment experience clinical ...

Co-written by Tyler VanderWeele and Jennifer Wortham. Our moral understanding of right and wrong, and good and evil, is fundamental to who we are. Such understanding guides our actions and evaluations ...

Source: Getty Images A central objective of addressing moral distress is to permit clinicians to effectively perform their professional functions and thus better help patients. A colleague of mine ...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the frequency, the intensity and the level of moral distress experienced by nurses working in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). We conducted a ...

Daniel T. Kim does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

The young man was in his mid-20s when he came to see me for severe abdominal pain at my small community clinic. The pain, worse than any he'd ever experienced, had persisted for weeks and was getting ...

Nearly four in five GPs across the country have experienced moral distress while caring for their patients, a new survey has found. Research conducted by the Medical and Dental Defence Union of ...