2019-20 coronavirus outbreak

Philosophy

Health care

Social psychology

Virology

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)

Outbreak

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Psychology

Anguish

Political science

Epistemology

Infectious disease (medical specialty)

Internal medicine

Coping (psychology)

Distress

Health professionals

Medicine

Clinical psychology

Moral injury

Pandemic

Disease

Pathology

Nursing

Nurses and other healthcare professionals across the US have experienced and are still experiencing different types of moral anguish during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article discusses moral distress and the other forms of moral anguish that nurses experience, how the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated moral distress among nurses, and coping strategies.

Coping with moral distress during COVID-19