Moral Distress: Our Invitation to Brave Vulnerability
摘要
Lori Klein’s chapter begins with her growing awareness as a spiritual care provider and leader during the COVID-19 pandemic that many of her healthcare colleagues lacked the tools to mitigate their moral and emotional distress. Inevitably, healthcare workers will experience moral distress in the United States healthcare environment. Left unattended, this distress can evolve to moral injury and burnout. While we wait for clinical research into effective methods of moral repair and cultivating moral resilience to mature, members of the healthcare team can attend compassionately to themselves and others and advocate for systemic changes to better align healthcare operations with collaboratively established values. Klein’s chapter explores vignettes of moral distress and describes how trauma-informed education of healthcare workers can encourage supportive and transformative individual, team, and organizational practices.