Open AccessICU Nurse's Moral Distress as an Occupational Hazard Threatening Professional Quality of Life in the Time of Pandemic COVID 19
Author(s) -
Maria Malliarou,
Athanasios Nikolentzos,
Dimitrios Papadopoulos,
Theodora Bekiari,
Pavlos Sarafis
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
materia socio-medica/materia socio medica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1986-597X
pISSN - 1512-7680
DOI - 10.5455/msm.2021.33.88-93
Subject(s) - distress , feeling , quality of life (healthcare) , intensive care unit , psychology , medicine , nursing , clinical psychology , social psychology , psychiatry
Moral distress is an unpleasant feeling that arises when one is forced to behave in such a way that it violates one's personal beliefs and values about what is right and what is wrong. Moral distress, unlike other forms of distress, contains an incompatible conflict between one's personal moral limitations and the acts that accompany it.