When health care professionals know the right thing to do, but are prevented from doing so, they can suffer from moral distress. Although moral distress in nursing has been studied extensively, it has been a neglected topic with regard to the social work profession. This paper presents findings of a qualitative descriptive study on health care social workers’ experiences of moral distress, focusing mainly on the situations that caused such moral distress. The effects of moral distress, the coping strategies these social workers used to deal with their experience and the common theme of “pushing the rules” are also presented. Finally, we offer recommendations, which were made by participants, to assist social workers with decreasing the effe...
BackgroundMoral distress is the psychological response to knowing the appropriate action but not bei...
Thousands of health care providers currently live and practice in Canada,1 and each day these provid...
Social workers employed in healthcare are often present for clients during times of heightened stres...
In the nursing literature, work-related suffering due to restricted moral agency is commonly conside...
The aim of this research was to identify the sources of moral distress among registered nurses, util...
In this article, the authors discuss the important issue of moral distress among support workers. Mo...
Moral distress has been widely reviewed across many care contexts and among a range of disciplines. ...
Moral distress is defined as the suffering experienced as a result of situations in which individual...
Moral distress is a common but frequently overlooked concept in the nursing profession, though not e...
Aim: To assess the frequency, intensity and level of moral distress perceived by nurses working in m...
Stephen Campbell, Connie Ulrich, and Christine Grady argue that we need to a broader understanding o...
Background: Moral distress can be broadly described as the psychological distress that can develo...
In the last three decades, considerable theoretical and empirical research has been undertaken on th...
• BACKGROUND Moral distress is caused by situations in which the ethically appropriate course of ac...
The concept of moral distress has brought forth a substantively different way of understanding some ...
BackgroundMoral distress is the psychological response to knowing the appropriate action but not bei...
Thousands of health care providers currently live and practice in Canada,1 and each day these provid...
Social workers employed in healthcare are often present for clients during times of heightened stres...
In the nursing literature, work-related suffering due to restricted moral agency is commonly conside...
The aim of this research was to identify the sources of moral distress among registered nurses, util...
In this article, the authors discuss the important issue of moral distress among support workers. Mo...
Moral distress has been widely reviewed across many care contexts and among a range of disciplines. ...
Moral distress is defined as the suffering experienced as a result of situations in which individual...
Moral distress is a common but frequently overlooked concept in the nursing profession, though not e...
Aim: To assess the frequency, intensity and level of moral distress perceived by nurses working in m...
Stephen Campbell, Connie Ulrich, and Christine Grady argue that we need to a broader understanding o...
Background: Moral distress can be broadly described as the psychological distress that can develo...
In the last three decades, considerable theoretical and empirical research has been undertaken on th...
• BACKGROUND Moral distress is caused by situations in which the ethically appropriate course of ac...
The concept of moral distress has brought forth a substantively different way of understanding some ...
BackgroundMoral distress is the psychological response to knowing the appropriate action but not bei...
Thousands of health care providers currently live and practice in Canada,1 and each day these provid...
Social workers employed in healthcare are often present for clients during times of heightened stres...