FED PRACT: Moral Injury in Health Care: A Unified Definition and its Relationship toBurnout.
Moral injury had been discussed by health care professionals as a cause of occupational distress prior to COVID-19, but the pandemic expanded the appeal and investigation of the term. Moral injury incorporates more than the transdiagnostic symptoms of exhaustion and cynicism and goes beyond operational, demand-resource mismatches of corporatized systems.