Symposium of four papers: Identifying and mitigating moral distress in the nursing workforce: insights from the UK and the United States

Watts, Tessa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1201-5192, Sydor, Anna, Temeng, Eunice, Hewitt, Rachael, Pattinson, Rachael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3145-3710, Whybrow, Dean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9066-6196, Kyle, Richard, Bundy, Edna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5981-3984, Morley, Georgina and Jones, Bethan 2022. Symposium of four papers: Identifying and mitigating moral distress in the nursing workforce: insights from the UK and the United States. Presented at: RCN International Nursing Research Conference, Cardiff, UK, 5-6 September 2022. Conference Abstracts Brochure. pp. 152-157.

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Abstract

Symposium Statement Moral distress in healthcare is founded in the inner conflict that surfaces when individuals act in ways that are incompatible with deeply held moral beliefs and values. It is the anguish experienced when individuals are repeatedly confronted with adverse situations where they believe their personal and professional moral values and integrity are undermined, because of either personal or system level constraints. Although long recognised and debated in nursing research and practice, COVID-19 has thrown the importance of moral distress into sharp relief. The sustained, intense and repetitive pressures and invidious situations experienced by nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic means it is now imperative that the impacts of experiencing moral distress on nurses’ health and wellbeing and workforce retention are both better understood and mitigated through specialist intervention. This symposium brings together international experts on moral distress to identify key knowledge gaps and promising areas of moral distress intervention through the presentation of four inter-linked papers.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item - unpublished
Date Type:	Completion
Status:	Unpublished
Schools:	Schools > Healthcare Sciences
Additional Information:	Abstract no: 0243
Funders:	Public Health Wales/ Burdett Trust for Nursing
Projects:	ASSISTANCE/ASSISTANCE PLUS
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2026 16:03
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/152456

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