{"title":"Moral distress among healthcare professionals at a health system.","authors":"Rose Allen, Tanya Judkins-Cohn, Raul deVelasco, Edwina Forges, Rosemary Lee, Laurel Clark, Maggie Procunier","doi":"10.1097/NHL.0b013e3182a1bf33","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Moral distress is increasingly recognized as a problem affecting healthcare professionals. If not addressed, it may create job dissatisfaction, withdrawal from the moral dimensions of patient care, or even leaving the profession. Using the 21-Moral Distress Scale-Revised to assess moral distress, 323 surveys were received from 5 healthcare disciplines. The overall results showed that all disciplines experienced moderate to high actual moral distress, related to similar and/or different patient care situations. </p>","PeriodicalId":80291,"journal":{"name":"JONA'S healthcare law, ethics and regulation","volume":"15 3","pages":"111-8; quiz 119-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2013-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/NHL.0b013e3182a1bf33","citationCount":"95","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"JONA'S healthcare law, ethics and regulation","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NHL.0b013e3182a1bf33","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Moral distress is increasingly recognized as a problem affecting healthcare professionals. If not addressed, it may create job dissatisfaction, withdrawal from the moral dimensions of patient care, or even leaving the profession. Using the 21-Moral Distress Scale-Revised to assess moral distress, 323 surveys were received from 5 healthcare disciplines. The overall results showed that all disciplines experienced moderate to high actual moral distress, related to similar and/or different patient care situations.