Call for Papers (pdf download)
Professionals and students from all disciplines are invited to submit paper or poster proposals related to the theme of moral distress in the healthcare setting. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- The nature of moral distress
- The psychological or emotional experience of moral distress
- Identifying moral distress (formal or informal strategies)
- Alleviating or mitigating moral distress (formal or informal strategies)
- Clinic-specific experiences with moral distress
- Resilience training
- Courage and moral distress
- Virtue and moral distress
- Organizational responses to moral distress
Because this workshop is intended to be interactive, paper proposals must include a description of the presenter’s plan for engaging and interacting with the audience. Each proposal should indicate whether it is for a paper or poster presentation and should describe the presentational content in no more than 300 words. Innovation in style and content is highly encouraged. Abstracts must be received by midnight on January 29, 2020.