Tag: moral distress

Moral Distress in the Coronavirus Pandemic

For those of us in healthcare right now, there are many real/potential causes of moral distress related to the pandemic, let alone our regular, everyday work. Do we have PPE? Is there enough of it? Who is getting tested? Are there even any tests available? Test backlogs. Do we have enough staff? ICU beds? Ventilators?…

A first of many ethical problems

One of the earliest ethical problems I encountered in acute care, and one I often use for educational purposes, involved a woman I'll call Linda. Linda had end-stage liver disease (ESLD for short) and had been admitted for failure to thrive due to poor nutritional intake and concurrent hepatic encephalopathy. She was listed for transplant...