Mitigating Moral Distress: Pediatric Critical Care Nurses' Recommendations.

ABSTRACT: In pediatric critical care, nurses are the primary caregivers for critically ill children and are particularly vulnerable to moral distress. There is limited evidence on what approaches are effective to minimize moral distress among these nurses. To identify intervention attributes that critical care nurses with moral distress histories deem important to develop a moral distress intervention. We used a qualitative description approach. Participants were recruited using purposive sampling between October 2020 to May 2021 from pediatric critical care units in a western Canadian province. We conducted individual semi-structured interviews via Zoom. A total of 10 registered nurses participated in the study. Four main themes were identified: (1) "I'm sorry, there's nothing else": increasing sup

SUBMITTER: Deschenes S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10158695 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature