This paper proposes communities of practice (CoP) as a process to build moral resilience in
healthcare settings. We introduce the starting point of moral distress that arises from ethical …

COVID-19 has truly affected most of the world over the past many months, perhaps more
than any other event in recent history. In the wake of this pandemic are patients, family …

The COVID19 pandemic has transformed healthcare for both clinicians and patients. This
conceptual article uses ideas from the moral distress literature to understand the challenges …

Background: Moral distress occurs when constraints prevent healthcare providers from
acting in accordance with their core moral values to provide good patient care. The …

Moral distress is the psychological distress that is experienced in relation to a morally
challenging situation or event. Although it was first observed within nursing, caregivers …

Moral distress is a negative emotional response that occurs when physicians know the
morally correct action but are prevented from taking it because of internal or external …

Background: The 2019 coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic placed unprecedented strains on
the US health care system, putting health care workers (HCWs) at increased risk for …

Austerity, by its very nature, imposes constraints by limiting the options for action available to
us because certain courses of action are too costly or insufficiently cost effective. In the …

Aims and objectives To describe common characteristics and themes of the concept of moral
resilience as reported by interprofessional clinicians in health care. Background Research …

Once a term used primarily by moral philosophers,“moral distress” is increasingly used by
health professionals to name experiences of frustration and failure in fulfilling moral …