This article looks at The intensive care unit (ICU) is a stressful environment due to high patient mortality and morbidity, daily confrontations with ethical dilemmas, and a tension-charged
atmosphere. It proposes various interventions to enhance the ICU atmosphere and concludes that the critical care professional societies, hospitals, and other stakeholders all have a responsibility to acknowledge that moral distress occurs—and to develop strategies to identify moral distress among their members and employees.
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