Moral distress occurs when someone feels constrained from acting on their ethical beliefs due to institutional or other external pressures. Moral distress is a significant challenge that may confront ...

I sit on an ethics review committee at the Albany Med Health System in New York state, where doctors and nurses frequently bring us fraught questions. Consider a typical case: A 6-month-old child has ...

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 ...

Co-written by Tyler VanderWeele and Jennifer Wortham. Our moral understanding of right and wrong, and good and evil, is fundamental to who we are. Such understanding guides our actions and evaluations ...

It’s common to have fears about being a “bad person,” but for most people, these are fleeting thoughts and not true fears about being immoral. However, this isn’t the case for people who suffer from a ...