Ethically difficult situations are a part of the everyday clinical practice for health care
professionals and concerns difficult judgements, prioritization and crucial decisions. Being
unable or prevented to act according to one's moral conviction for what is good and right
care may increase the risk for health care professionals to experience moral distress. Moral
distress has been described as a condition with frustration, guilt, anger and as one reason
for health care professionals to leave the profession. Ethics communication in groups has
been showed to work as support for health care professionals in ethically difficult
situations and further work as a tool to improve the ethical climate and prevent moral
distress. Our research group has developed the "one to five-step method" for
interprofessional ethical communication in groups. The method is a stepwise support for
facilitating ethics communication in clinical practice when the situations occurs. The
overall aim of this project: is to implement and evaluate a method for organized
interprofessional communication about ethical issues in healthcare.
Significance: The study can generate knowledge about ethics communication in groups in line
with the " one to five step method", reduce moral distress, create improved ethical climate
for healthcare professionals and in turn open up prerequisites for good care.
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