Moral Distress and Intention to Leave the Profession: Lithuanian Nurses in Municipal Hospitals

Purpose The purpose of this study was to describe the level of moral distress experienced by nurses, situations that most often caused moral distress, and the intentions of the nurses to leave the profession. Methods A descriptive, cross‐sectional, correlational design was applied in this study. Registered nurses were recruited from five large, urban Lithuanian municipal hospitals representing the five administrative regions in Lithuania. Among...