Google Scholar Resources: Ethical Climate ( 4 / 5 Stars for Scope and Solutions of MD)

A search on Google Scholar for "Moral Distress returns over 600,000 results, many of which are scholarly journal articles. One example of these is a discussion of how there tends to be a correlation between a work environment's ethical climate, and moral distress levels. This was published in the journal of critical care medicine in 2007 by nurse researcher Dr. Ann Hamric and Dr. Leslie Blackhall. The researchers discuss how important collaboration and open discussion and resolution of moral distress is for resolving both MD and improving the ethical climate of a work space.

One question from this article is: Why are health care workers unable to resolve morally distressing events when they arise in the work environment? Do they lack courage, or are there more systemic restraints that exceed a fair expectation of individual courage?

http://journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/Abstract/2007/02000/Nurse_physician_perspectives_on_the_care_of_dying.13.aspx