Hasina Samji

Oct 17, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Rosemary Morgan |Hasina Samji |Julia Smith

1 INTRODUCTION The COVID-19 pandemic has led to increased recognition of the effects of moral distress among healthcare workers (Vittone & Sotomayor, 2021; Xue et al., 2022). Hossain writes, “During this era of COVID-19, frontliners from every part of the world are facing moral distress” (Hossain, 2021, p. 190). Numerous studies document increased and compounded forms of moral distress, which is linked to an increased risk of burnout and attrition (Hlubocky et al., 2021; Riedel et al., 2022).