Moral distress to moral success: Strategies to decrease moral distress

Background:Moral distress, which is especially high in critical care nurses, has significant negative implications for nurses, patients, organizations, and healthcare as a whole.Aim:A moral distress workshop and follow-up activities were implemented in an intensive care unit in order to decrease lev...

Full description

Saved in:  
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Semler, Lindsay R. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Journals Online & Print:
Drawer...
Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Published: Sage 2023
In: Nursing ethics
Year: 2023, Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Pages: 58-70
Further subjects:B Ethics
B Nursing
B Critical care
B moral resilience
B ethical confidence
B Moral Distress
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)

MARC

LEADER 00000naa a22000002 4500
001 1833775090
003 DE-627
005 20230209052507.0
007 cr uuu---uuuuu
008 230209s2023 xx |||||o 00| ||eng c
024 7 |a 10.1177/09697330221114328  |2 doi 
035 |a (DE-627)1833775090 
035 |a (DE-599)KXP1833775090 
040 |a DE-627  |b ger  |c DE-627  |e rda 
041 |a eng 
084 |a 1  |2 ssgn 
100 1 |a Semler, Lindsay R.  |e VerfasserIn  |4 aut 
245 1 0 |a Moral distress to moral success: Strategies to decrease moral distress 
264 1 |c 2023 
336 |a Text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a Computermedien  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a Online-Ressource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
520 |a Background:Moral distress, which is especially high in critical care nurses, has significant negative implications for nurses, patients, organizations, and healthcare as a whole.Aim:A moral distress workshop and follow-up activities were implemented in an intensive care unit in order to decrease levels of moral distress and increase nurses’ perceived comfort and confidence in ethical decision-making.Design:A quality improvement (QI) initiative was conducted using a pre- and post-intervention design. The program consisted of a four-hour interactive workshop, followed by two individual self-reflection activities at 2–3 weeks and 5–6 weeks after the workshop.Participants:Critical care nurses working in a heart and vascular intensive care unit at a large academic medical center.Ethical Considerations:This study was deemed to be a QI project by the institution’s Institutional Review Board. Participation was voluntary.Findings:Nurses experienced a significant decrease in moral distress. The participants’ average ethical confidence increased in four areas (ability to identify the conflicting values at stake, knowing role expectations, feeling prepared to resolved ethical conflict, and being able to do the right thing), with knowledge of role expectations and feeling prepared to resolve ethical conflict yielding statistically significant increases. Qualitative findings resulted in consistent themes related to causes of moral distress and ways nurses approached addressing moral distress.Discussion:This study reinforces previous evidence on moral distress and its causes in critical care nurses, and provides a mechanism for improving moral distress and ethical confidence.Conclusions:This QI study demonstrates the effectiveness of an evidence-based program for decreasing critical care nurses’ moral distress and increasing their ethical confidence. The strategies described in this paper can replicated by nursing leaders who wish to effect change at their local level, or adapted and expanded to other professions and clinical care units. 
601 |a Strategie 
650 4 |a ethical confidence 
650 4 |a moral resilience 
650 4 |a Ethics 
650 4 |a Critical care 
650 4 |a Nursing 
650 4 |a Moral Distress 
773 0 8 |i Enthalten in  |t Nursing ethics  |d London [u.a.] : Sage, 1994  |g 30(2023), 1, Seite 58-70  |h Online-Ressource  |w (DE-627)324869460  |w (DE-600)2031461-9  |w (DE-576)273866605  |x 1477-0989  |7 nnns 
773 1 8 |g volume:30  |g year:2023  |g number:1  |g pages:58-70 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.1177/09697330221114328  |x Resolving-System  |z lizenzpflichtig  |3 Volltext 
935 |a mteo 
936 u w |d 30  |j 2023  |e 1  |h 58-70 
951 |a AR 
ELC |a 1 
ITA |a 1  |t 1 
LOK |0 000 xxxxxcx a22 zn 4500 
LOK |0 001 4269214902 
LOK |0 003 DE-627 
LOK |0 004 1833775090 
LOK |0 005 20230209052507 
LOK |0 008 230209||||||||||||||||ger||||||| 
LOK |0 035   |a (DE-Tue135)IxTheo#2023-02-08#2A7795469442A976A4A317D38158C47AE6953E38 
LOK |0 040   |a DE-Tue135  |c DE-627  |d DE-Tue135 
LOK |0 092   |o n 
LOK |0 852   |a DE-Tue135 
LOK |0 852 1  |9 00 
LOK |0 935   |a ixzs  |a zota 
ORI |a SA-MARC-ixtheoa001.raw