Background Moral distress was first described by Jameton in 1984, and has been defined as
distress experienced by an individual when they are unable to carry out what they believe to …

Ethical challenges are inherent in nursing practice. They affect patients, families, teams,
organizations, and nurses themselves. These challenges arise when there are competing …

Purpose Moral distress is a phenomenon affecting many professionals across healthcare
settings. Few studies have used a standard measure of moral distress to assess and …

This article reports the findings of a qualitative study (secondary analysis) that explored the
organizational influences on moral distress for health professionals working in pediatric …

BACKGROUND Jameton, who first conceptualized moral distress, described it as arising
when one knows the right thing to do, but institutional constraints make it nearly impossible …

Background Over the last three decades, there has been a growing body of literature that
has described moral distress as a prominent issue that negatively affects intensive care …

Moral distress remains a pervasive and, at times, contested concept in nursing and other
health care disciplines. Ethical climate, the conditions and practices in which ethical …

Background: Moral distress can affect critical care nurses caring for complex patients. It can
result in job dissatisfaction, loss of capacity for caring, and nurse turnover, resulting in a …

Moral distress is a well-recognized and ubiquitous aspect of health care professional
practice in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) context. We used interpretive description …

Research on moral distress has paid limited attention to nurses' responses and actions. In a
survey of nurses' perceptions of moral distress and ethical climate, 292 nurses answered …