TY - JOUR
T1 - MORAL DISTRESS IN HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS
AU - Muñoz, Joan Bertran
AU - Lasaosa, Francisco José Cambra
AU - Carrera i Carrera, Joan
AU - Aresté, Montse Esquerda
AU - Mestre, Marc Illa
AU - Izquierdo, David Lorenzo
AU - Carrera, Helena Roig
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Authors. All rights reserved.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic has generated, because of its disruptive, exceptional and sudden character, great changes in the care, planning and organization of healthcare systems, bringing about scenarios for which nobody was prepared, especially healthcare professionals. In these scenarios, moral distress, affecting mainly healthcare professionals, makes its appearance. The goal of this article is to analyse and describe the roots of moral distress, the areas in which it has appeared during the pandemic and, lastly, to offer a proposal to fight against it.
AB - The COVID-19 pandemic has generated, because of its disruptive, exceptional and sudden character, great changes in the care, planning and organization of healthcare systems, bringing about scenarios for which nobody was prepared, especially healthcare professionals. In these scenarios, moral distress, affecting mainly healthcare professionals, makes its appearance. The goal of this article is to analyse and describe the roots of moral distress, the areas in which it has appeared during the pandemic and, lastly, to offer a proposal to fight against it.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Healthcare
KW - Moral distress
KW - Pandemic
KW - Resilience
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85143789046&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.34810/rljaev1n12id389313
DO - 10.34810/rljaev1n12id389313
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85143789046
SN - 2013-8393
VL - 12
SP - 235
EP - 249
JO - Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics
JF - Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics
IS - 12
ER -