Mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 is a highly controversial issue, and many members of the public oppose it on the grounds that they should be free to determine what happens to their own body. Opinion has generally favored parental authority with respect to vaccination of children, but less attention has been paid to the ethical complexities of how to respond when mature minors refuse vaccination that is requested by their parents. We present a case in which an mature minor, who was psychiatrically hospitalized, refused vaccination that had been requested by her parents, which lead to significant moral distress for her caregivers.
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Ethics Hum Res
January 2025
Professor of health humanities and ethics, psychiatry, and public health sciences at the Center for Health Humanities and Ethics at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
Moral distress occurs when professionals are constrained from taking what they believe to be ethically appropriate actions or are forced to take actions they believe are ethically inappropriate, challenging their professional identities and representing systems-level issues within organizations. Moral distress has been recognized in a variety of health care-related fields; however, the phenomenon is still comparatively unexplored among clinical research professionals (CRPs). In this qualitative study, we interviewed ten CRPs to unearth root causes of moral distress in this ethically unique profession.
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Department of Community Health Nursing, School of Nursing, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.
Background: Professional quality of life has received widespread concern in nursing over the last few years. Nurses with a high professional quality of life enthusiastically approach their work and provide excellent patient care. On the other hand, poor professional quality of life may affect nurses' quality of care, resulting in job dissatisfaction and jeopardizing patient outcomes.
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January 2025
Department of Nursing, School of Nursing, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.
Goal: The objective of this study was to better understand how healthcare systems' unit- and system-level leaders perceive and experience moral distress consultation services, including their utility, efficacy, and sustainability.
Methods: A multimethod design was conducted in tandem across two academic medical centers with longstanding and active moral distress consultation services. Moral distress data for healthcare providers participating in moral distress consultation were collected.
J Am Vet Med Assoc
January 2025
3Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA.
Objective: To document veterinary technicians' (VTs') experiences with medical futility and its subsequent impact on moral distress and attrition from the profession.
Methods: A cross-sectional study using a 56-question web-based, confidential and anonymous survey was distributed through the National Association of Veterinary Technicians in America between January 19 and February 15, 2023.
Results: There were 1,944 responses from approximately 8,500 members (22% response rate).
Am J Crit Care
January 2025
Peter Dodek is a professor emeritus, Division of Critical Care Medicine and Center for Advancing Health Outcomes, St Paul's Hospital and University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Background: Moral distress affects the well-being of health care professionals and can lead to burnout and attrition. Assessing moral distress and taking action based on this assessment are important. A new moral conflict assessment (MCA) designed to prompt action was developed and tested.
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