OBJECTIVE To know the strategies of resistance adopted by nursing staff, facing situations of moral distress, from an ethical perspective. METHOD The authors conducted qualitative research through semi-structured interviews, with fifteen nursing staff members of a university hospital in the extreme south of Brazil, using textual discourse analysis and the theoretical reference of Foucault. ...

BACKGROUND The high level of stress experienced by nurses leads to moral distress, burnout, and a host of detrimental effects. OBJECTIVES To support creation of healthy work environments and to design a 2-phase project to enhance nurses' resilience while improving retention and reducing turnover. METHODS In phase 1, a cross-sectional survey was used to characterize the experiences of a high...

Simply working harder cannot resolve the conflicts caused by responsibility without autonomy

Context A recent increase in the number of publications on the high prevalence of burnout and moral distress in health professionals in general, and in critical care staff in particular, has led to a call for more research into the mechanisms by which burnout arises and into interventions to increase resilience in the workplace. In this study, the associations between exposure to pain, empathy ...

Age changes' measures of prosocial responding and reasoning were examined. Participants' reports of helping, empathy-related responding, and prosocial moral reasoning were obtained in adolescence (from age 15-16 years) and into adulthood (to age 25-26 years). Perspective taking and approval/interpersonal oriented/stereotypic prosocial moral reasoning increased from adolescence into adulthood, w...