.... This research was designed to address this significant gap. There is growing recognition that nursing staff in long-term care (LTC) residential facilities experience moral distress, a phenomenon in which one knows the ethically right action to take, but is systemically constrained from taking it. To date...

...Em Pijl‐Zieber; Brad Hagen; Chris Armstrong‐Esther; Barry Hall; Lindsay Akins; Michael Stingl Nurses and other professional caregivers are increasingly recognising the issue of moral distress and the deleterious effect it may have on professional work life, staff recruitment and staff retention...