Can the Ethical Best Practice of Shared Decision-Making lead to Moral Distress?

Can the Ethical Best Practice of Shared Decision-Making lead to Moral Distress?

Prentice TM; Gillam L

Journal of bioethical inquiry

2018

Neonatology; Humans; Burnout Professional; Attitude of Health Personnel; Patient Participation; Morals; Stress Psychological; Decision-making; Decision Making/ethics; Clinical ethics; End-of-life issues; Patient Care/ethics; Physicians/ethics/psychology; Professional-professional relationship

When healthcare professionals feel constrained from acting in a patient's best interests, moral distress ensues. The resulting negative sequelae of burnout, poor retention rates, and ultimately poor patient care are well recognized across healthcare providers. Yet an appreciation of how particular disciplines, including physicians, come to be "constrained" in their actions is still lacking. This paper will examine how the application of shared decision-making may contribute to the experience of moral distress for physicians and why such distress may go under-recognized. Appreciation of these dynamics may assist in cross-discipline sensitivity, enabling more constructive dialogue and collaboration.

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