Moral Distress – Being Clueless About What to Do

You’ve probably experienced moral distress at some point in your life. It happens when you do anything that’s against your values. It’s the eternal conundrum between duty and desire, between what the heart dictates vs. what the circumstances require. Life, after all, runs through these ambivalent channels in which things aren’t always as one would like them to be. There are thousands of examples of these circumstances. For one, health professionals, doctors, nurses, and health workers experience them when they work in poor conditions and can’t tend to patients as they’d like to. Most people experience it when, for example,…