Objectives Palliative care providers may be exposed to numerous detrimental psychological
and existential challenges. Ethical issues in the healthcare arena are subject to continual …

Background: The practice of palliative care is involved with ethical conflicts related to the life-
death process and relief of suffering. The inability to act in the face of such dilemmas, due to …

Background: Palliative care clinicians confront suffering as they care for people living with
life-limiting conditions. When the degree of suffering becomes unjustified, moral distress can …

Background: Moral distress is a pervasive reality of palliative care practice. An existing
framework for understanding it has been proposed as a way to begin to address moral …

Background Recognising and knowing how to manage ethical issues and moral dilemmas
can be considered an ethical skill. In this study, ethics of care is used as a theoretical …

Background: Moral distress is a neglected issue in most palliative education programmes,
and research has largely focused on this phenomenon as an occupational problem for …

Background: Caring for dying people can contribute to moral distress experienced by
healthcare professionals. Moral distress can occur when this caring is restricted by …

OBJECTIVES: Moral distress (MD) occurs when the health care provider feels certain of the
ethical course of action but is constrained from taking that action. The purpose was to …

Background Concepts of moral distress (MD) among physicians have evolved and extend
beyond the notion of psychological distress caused by being in a situation in which one is …

Background: Moral distress is a frequent phenomenon in end-of-life care. It occurs when one
knows the morally correct response to an ethically challenging situation, but cannot act …