Moral resilience: A capacity for navigating moral distress in critical care

Abstract

Moral resilience is a concept that is gaining prominence and is deserving of our consideration as a way to transform the profound despair and powerlessness associated with morally distressing situations. These preliminary ideas are offered to stimulate further dialogue and refinement. These beginning observations and recommendations can help to stimulate greater conceptual clarity and form the basis of a research agenda to develop an evidence base for interventions aimed at cultivating moral resilience.