{"title":"What is moral injury and how does it affect nurses?","authors":"Daniel Allen","doi":"10.7748/en.31.3.10.s4","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The concepts of moral injury and moral distress came to the fore in nursing during the COVID-19 pandemic when, says mental health nurse researcher Emily Wood, healthcare professionals were being placed in difficult circumstances. They were, for example, having to make decisions about which of the sickest patients could be admitted to a limited number of intensive care beds.","PeriodicalId":35711,"journal":{"name":"Emergency Nurse","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Emergency Nurse","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7748/en.31.3.10.s4","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Nursing","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The concepts of moral injury and moral distress came to the fore in nursing during the COVID-19 pandemic when, says mental health nurse researcher Emily Wood, healthcare professionals were being placed in difficult circumstances. They were, for example, having to make decisions about which of the sickest patients could be admitted to a limited number of intensive care beds.