Exploring Nurse Manager Morale Distress: Moving from Collegial Conversations to a Collaborative Research Study

Objective/Purpose/Question: The purpose of this study was to address the gap in the literature evaluating moral distress specifically among nurse managers. Aims of the study were to describe the experience of moral distress for inpatient unit nurse managers: specifically, to; identify moral distress root causes for nurse managers, and to evaluate the most troublesome sources of moral distress for nurse managers. The topic of morale distress is frequently studied in the population of clinical providers but not for nurse managers. Information will be shared about how conversations among clinicians, organizational nursing leadership and nursing faculty resulted in a collaborative research study team from Carilion Clinic, University of Virginia and James Madison University. Preliminary results will be shared