What is 'moral distress'? A narrative synthesis of the literature

G Morley, J Ives, C Bradbury-Jones, F Irvine - Nursing ethics, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims: The aim of this narrative synthesis was to explore the necessary and sufficient
conditions required to define moral distress. Background: Moral distress is said to occur …

When healthcare professionals cannot do the right thing: A systematic review of moral distress and its correlates

G Lamiani, L Borghi… - Journal of health …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Moral distress occurs when professionals cannot carry out what they believe to be ethically
appropriate actions. This review describes the publication trend on moral distress and …

Moral distress experienced by nurses: a quantitative literature review

Y Oh, C Gastmans - Nursing ethics, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Nurses are frequently confronted with ethical dilemmas in their nursing practice. As a
consequence, nurses report experiencing moral distress. The aim of this review was to …

Moral distress in critical care nursing: the state of the science

NS McAndrew, J Leske, K Schroeter - Nursing ethics, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Moral distress is a complex phenomenon frequently experienced by critical
care nurses. Ethical conflicts in this practice area are related to technological advancement …

Moral distress interventions: an integrative literature review

VK Amos, E Epstein - Nursing ethics, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Moral distress has been well reviewed in the literature with established deleterious side
effects for all healthcare professionals, including nurses, physicians, and others. Yet, little is …

Relationship between moral distress and ethical climate with job satisfaction in nurses

S Asgari, V Shafipour, Z Taraghi… - Nursing …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Moral distress and ethical climate are important issues in the workplace that
appear to affect people's quality of work life. Objectives: This study was conducted to …

Ethical climate in nursing environment: a sco** review

J Koskenvuori, O Numminen, R Suhonen - Nursing ethics, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: In the past two decades, interest in the concept of ethical climate and in its
research has increased in healthcare. Ethical climate is viewed as a type of organizational …

Toward interventions to address moral distress: navigating structure and agency

LC Musto, PA Rodney, R Vanderheide - Nursing ethics, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: The concept of moral distress has been the subject of nursing research for the
past 30 years. Recently, there has been a call to move from develo** an understanding of …

Professionalism dilemmas, moral distress and the healthcare student: insights from two online UK-wide questionnaire studies

LV Monrouxe, CE Rees, I Dennis, SE Wells - BMJ open, 2015 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective To understand the prevalence of healthcare students' witnessing or participating in
something that they think unethical (professionalism dilemmas) during workplace learning …

Ethical climate and nurse competence–newly graduated nurses' perceptions

O Numminen, H Leino-Kilpi, H Isoaho… - Nursing …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Nursing practice takes place in a social framework, in which environmental
elements and interpersonal relations interact. Ethical climate of the work unit is an important …