Moral injury, which is described as the psychological distress that results from actions, or lack of them, that go against one's beliefs or values, has become front and center among issues facing the practice of emergency medicine. Although it predates the COVID-19 outbreak, the pandemic has...
Once researchers defined the syndrome (albeit idiosyncratically), they began to focus on ways to identify MI. The first of these efforts was the work of military psychiatrist William Nash and colleagues who developed the Moral Injury Events Scale (MIES) based on work in active duty US Marines (...
It’s easy to understand how the violence of war can leave individuals suffering with moral pain and confusion, but moral injury is more widespread. It has even been identified in health care workers, according to theEmergency Medicine Journal. InSTAT, Talbot and Dean contend that moral injury ...
They report that workplace factors contribute to physician suicide "including a large workload, competitiveness of training programs, pressure of patient and service demands and the risk of(6)___injury if physicians are forced to work in ways that conflict with their ethics and values." This ...
First aid and emergency rescue Injury and illness on the job kill more than 2 million people around the world each year. That's 6,000 people a day. If a co-worker experienced chest pains or breathing difficulties, or severed an artery in an industrial accident, would ... Erven,W Lawrenc...
Jonathan Shay argued that social, relational, and institutional contexts were central to understanding moral injury and conceptualised moral injury as a no
Moral injury may be less abrasive and more academically and politically acceptable than human rights violations. Should we choose a diagnosis based on what's socially acceptable? Imagine if we say "heart injury" rather thanmyocardial infarctionor ruptured aorta. If we don't name the definitive dia...
The emergency is so dire, the death and injury toll already so great, that any political party with sincere good intentions to serve the People and an honest desire to turn around this sorry mess would include such an investigation and overhaul as an i...
Acts of incivility, insults, threats, or violence are more likely to manifest in some healthcare venues than others due to the stress of acute illness or injury, mental illness, intoxication, substance use, unfamiliarity, disorientation, or delirium. Other transgressions include hateful language ...
”However, the rapid advances in medical technology capabilities have also produced great uncertainty as to what is most beneficial or least harmful for the patient. In other words, along with increases in ability to be beneficent, medicine's technology has generated much debate about what actually...