With healthcare moving toward greater outpatient and preventative approaches, hospitalizations are increasingly intended for those who are critically ill. Frequently this requires the need for highly specialized nursing as well as resource utilization. Technological advances have aided in providing this type of intensive care but they have also compelled practitioners to make treatment decision...

To understand how and why people tolerate ongoing social and economic inequality, we conducted two studies investigating the hypothesis that system justification is associated with reduced emotional distress and a lack of support for helping the disadvantaged. In Study 1, we found that the endorsement of a system-justifying ideology was negatively associated with moral outrage, existential guil...

Moral distress - the physical and emotional response to feeling prevented from carrying out ethically proper action - can have serious consequences for health professionals and healthcare organizations. We investigated perceived moral distress qualitatively with managers in two BC health authorities.RESPONDENTS DESCRIBED CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH THEY EXPERIENCED DISTRESS: when they set priorities...

On day 2 of the symposium, panelists talked about efforts to create environments that diminish moral distress and improve moral resilience.

No one is talking about what must be profound moral distress among local African healthcare workers. Moral distress can result from not acting in accordance with what you believe to be ethically correct in professional practice, and it can lead to serious health related outcomes such as emotional suffering and physical ailments. The phenomenon was first described by the philosopher Andrew Jamet...