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  • Ethics
  • Healthcare Management

Background:

  • The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated moral distress in healthcare professionals.
  • Nurses frequently encounter moral distress, a conflict between ethical obligations and practical limitations.
  • Existing interventions for moral distress are limited, necessitating new approaches.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and describe a novel moral distress intervention for pediatric critical care nurses.
  • To address the gap in effective interventions for nurse moral distress.

Main Methods:

  • A multi-phase research study was conducted.
  • The intervention was developed using a sequential compilation of empirical work.
  • A relational ethics lens guided the intervention's framework.

Main Results:

  • A proactive, interdisciplinary meeting intervention for moral distress was developed.
  • The intervention is designed to be sequential and empirically grounded.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed intervention, rooted in relational ethics, shows potential for enhanced effectiveness.
  • This proactive approach aims to mitigate moral distress among pediatric critical care nurses.