Moral distress and work satisfaction: what is their relation in nursing work?

Objective: To verify relations between moral distress and work satisfaction in nursing work in the hospital context.

Method: A cross-sectional study carried out in a university hospital with nurses by applying a sociodemographic questionnaire, the "Index of Work Satisfaction" and the Brazilian Version of the "Moral Distress Scale". Descriptive statistics and Spearman's correlation were used for the analysis.