..., city and state, and email address (for verification, not publication), and send to Letters to the Editor, Critical Care Nurse , 27071 Aliso Creek Rd, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 or email to ccn@aacn.org . I would like to congratulate Dr Wocial on her salient points in the article "Resilience...

...Lucia D. Wocial, PhD, RN, HCE-C Topic Moral distress is receiving increasing attention in health care. The theoretical value of resilience as a strategy for coping with moral distress is prominent in the literature. Clinical Relevance The potential negative consequences of moral distress for nurses...

... and Jackson/Cub- bin Pressure Injury Risk Scales, is a registered nurse, trauma ICU, UK HealthCare. Author of Resilience as an Incom- plete Strategy for Coping With Moral Distress in Critical Care Nurses, Lucia Wocial is an adjunct assistant profes- sor, Indiana University School of Nursing, Indianapolis...

... internal consistency and reliability (Cronbach α = 0.79). The Moral Distress Thermometer (MDT) was first developed and psychometrically tested by Wocial and Weaver 42 to measure real-time moral distress in hospital nurses. The MDT is a single-item visual analog scale with an 11-point verbal...

... . Moral resilience: managing and preventing moral distress and moral residue . MedSurg Nurs . 2016 ; 25 ( 2 ): 121 – 124 . 13 Hamric AB , Wocial LD . Institutional ethics resources: creating moral spaces . Hastings Cent Rep . 2016 ; 46 ( 5 ): S22 – S27 . 14 American Nurses...

... in their ethical skills and ability to take moral action. Although controversy exists about the structure and content of ethics education in general, Wocial 33 suggests that it is necessary to move beyond the debate and provide continuing education. An example of such education is the Unit-Based Ethics...