Purpose Exposure to end-of-life and chronic illness on a daily basis may put palliative
healthcare professionals' well-being at risk. Resilience may represent a protective factor …

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 …

Aims To analyse whether managerial support and ethical vision of patient care would be
related to emotional exhaustion directly or through moral distress and whether these …

Drawing on the Conservation of Resources theory, this study analyzes whether resilience
could be related to healthcare providers' wellbeing and professional self-efficacy, both …

During the COVID-19 health emergency, healthcare professionals faced several ethical
demanding job stressors, becoming at particular risk of moral distress. To date, only a few …

In the modern healthcare landscape, moral distress has become an increasingly common
phenomenon among healthcare professionals. This condition is particularly prevalent …

Context Advance directives are legal documents which individuals draw up to declare their
treatment preferences and to appoint well-informed proxies to safeguard patient autonomy …

This study aims to assess, through psychometric evaluations, a preliminary Italian version of
the Hospital Ethical Climate Survey (HECS), checking its factor structure through exploratory …

Palliative care practice is associated with risk factors linked to end-of-life, chronicity,
personal, interpersonal, and work characteristics, as well as with protective factors, but how …

Abstract Background On December 2017 the Italian Parliament approved law n. 219/2017
“Provisions for informed consent and advance directives” regarding challenging legal and …