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Critical care nurse · Dec 2020
Resilience as an Incomplete Strategy for Coping With Moral Distress in Critical Care Nurses.
- Lucia D Wocial.
- Lucia D. Wocial is an adjunct assistant professor, Indiana University School of Nursing, and a nurse ethicist, Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics, Indiana University Health, Indianapolis, Indiana.
- Crit Care Nurse. 2020 Dec 1; 40 (6): 62-66.
TopicMoral distress is receiving increasing attention in health care. The theoretical value of resilience as a strategy for coping with moral distress is prominent in the literature.Clinical RelevanceThe potential negative consequences of moral distress for nurses are indisputable, driving a push to identify interventions to help nurses deal with the experience. The evidence that resilience is an important quality and skill for maintaining wellness is equally clear.PurposeTo review moral distress and resilience and examine the evidence for the new focus on resilience.Content CoveredThe complexity of both moral distress and resilience suggests that resilience by itself is an incomplete strategy for coping with and addressing moral distress.©2020 American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.
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