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 …

Moral distress occurs when an individual's moral integrity is seriously compromised, either
because one feels unable to act in accordance with core values and obligations, or …

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 …

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 …

The plethora of literature on moral distress has substantiated and refined the concept,
provided data about clinicians'(especially nurses') experiences, and offered advice for …

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

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 …

Background: Health care interprofessionals face competing obligations to their patients,
employers, and themselves. When ethical conflicts ensue and competing obligations cannot …

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