Zhao, J. and Xu, J. (2026) The Impact of Moral Distress on Nurses Work Alienation in Third Grade Class-A Hospital in Wuhan. Yangtze Medicine, 10, 1-9. doi: 10.4236/ym.2026.101001 .

UNC School of Medicine’s Jeffrey Sonis, MD, MPH, led two studies in PLOS ONE and the Journal of Healthcare Management on the moral distress impact of the pandemic and actions healthcare organizations ...

Moral distress is a common experience among clinicians, particularly in cases where ethical reasoning and institutional constraints collide. A new study, "When Fulfilling a Professional Obligation ...

Coined in 1984 by philosopher Andrew Jameton, “moral distress” originally described the suffering that nurses experience when institutional or systemic barriers prevent them from acting with integrity ...

A recent study found that most healthcare providers experienced either mild or intense levels of moral distress during the first year of the pandemic due to issues related to patient care and their ...

Addressing moral distress means not just obtaining ethics consultation as needed but also dealing with the feeling of powerlessness that often accompanies it. In the last several years, there has been ...

The COVID‐19 pandemic created novel patient care circumstances that may have increased nurses' moral distress, including COVID‐19 transmission risk and end‐of‐life care without family present. Moral ...

The growing use of mechanical circulatory support (MCS) may contribute to high levels of moral distress for clinicians who regularly care for critically ill patients receiving the aggressive but ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Overall, 71.6% of primary care, dental and behavioral health providers who were surveyed reported some level of ...