Ethical challenges are commonplace in critical care settings. Questions about the
boundaries of ethically permissible treatment, assessment of decisionmaking capacity …

Nurse clinicians may experience moral distress when they are unable to translate their
moral choices into moral action. The costs of unrelieved moral distress are high; ultimately …

Despite over three decades of research into the sources and costs of what has become an
“epidemic” of moral distress among healthcare professionals, spanning many clinical …

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 …

The intensive care unit (ICU) is a stressful environment due to high patient mortality and
morbidity, daily confrontations with ethical dilemmas, and a tension-charged atmosphere [1] …

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 …

" Suffering is an unavoidable reality in health care. Not only are patients and families
suffering but also the clinicians who care for them. Commonly the suffering experienced by …

Working with colleagues on a multidisci-plinary intensive care unit (ICU) team is a noble
endeavor. Similarly, providing high-quality, coordinated care to patients who are deathly ill …

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 …

Moral distress has been covered extensively in the nursing literature and increasingly in the
literature of other health professions. Cases that cause nurses' moral distress that are …