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Understanding Nurses Experiencing Moral Injury

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Additional equipment such as fans and ventilators made it difficult for nurses to be heard as they tried to offer kind words of comfort to patients. Common effects of moral injury on caregivers might include: Negative changes in behavior (both significant and ongoing). Loss of motivation. Weakened sense of empathy or compassion.

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Understanding Nurses Experiencing Moral Injury

Nurse.com

Additional equipment such as fans and ventilators made it difficult for nurses to be heard as they tried to offer kind words of comfort to patients. Common effects of moral injury on caregivers might include: Negative changes in behavior (both significant and ongoing). Loss of motivation. Weakened sense of empathy or compassion.

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Firestorm

The Nurse Break

At one stage the backup generators failed, draining the room of the intensive care specialists as they sprinted up to ICU to help ventilate their patients by hand. From social workers, chaplains and ex-ED staff who turned up to volunteer their services, to patients and relatives who became caregivers themselves.

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