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 ...

Moral injury can occur if someone does or witnesses something that violates their personal moral beliefs. They may feel guilty, ashamed, or angry or feel that they have experienced a betrayal. The ...

Addressing moral distress means not just obtaining ethics consultation as needed but also dealing with the feeling of powerlessness that often accompanies it. In the last several years, there has been ...

I sit on an ethics review committee at the Albany Med Health System in New York state, where doctors and nurses frequently bring us fraught questions. Consider a typical case: A 6-month-old child has ...

Being a woman, a nursing professional, and working in the community sphere increased the risk of moral distress (MD), according to a study by the University of Cordoba carried out among more than 500 ...

This is Part 2 of my series on moral distress and cultivating moral resilience. Read Part 1 here. “Moral distress” is a term coined in 1984 by philosopher Andrew Jameton to describe the suffering ...

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 ...

The mental health world has a term for psychological distress that happens when your values are violated. Credit...Vanessa Saba Supported by By Christina Caron When Jennifer S. Wortham was a teenager, ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Most survey respondents reported more moral distress after Dobbs. Clinicians practicing in states with vs.