title: Cultivating Moral Resilience.
abstract: : Decades of research have documented the frequency, sources, and consequences of moral distress. However, few studies have focused on interventions designed to diminish its negative effects. The cultivation of moral resilience-the ability to respond positively to the distress and adversity caused by an ethically complex situation-is proposed as a method to transform moral distress.
authors.affiliation: Cynda Hylton Rushton is the Anne and George L. Bunting Professor of Clinical Ethics at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and a professor of nursing and pediatrics at the John Hopkins School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD. Contact author: crushto1@jhu.edu. The author has disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
authors.forename: Cynda Hylton
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Rushton
mesh_terms: D004989:Ethics; D006801:Humans; D009014:Morals; D055500:Resilience, Psychological