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Team Care Connections primary care workforce training magazines are designed to initiate discussion and generate avenues for new solutions among primary care team members and broader learning communities. The digital magazines feature short, engaging, and practical articles that can be read in any order. Icons throughout the magazines provide a map to interactive features such as videos, expert commentary, lightboxes, tips and tools.

This issue of Team Care Connections is meant to open conversations about moral distress and moral injury among members of primary care teams. Articles offer suggestions about how to start talking about moral distress and moral injury, examples of clinical situations that may cause them, and recommendations from experts about what to do if and when you and your team experience them.

Recent studies on provider well-being indicate that doctors, nurses and members of their clinical teams experience stress when they aren’t able to do all the work they value or believe they should be doing.

Conversations About Moral Distress and Moral Injury tackles this tough subject and offers examples of how moral distress and moral injury may show up, and what team members can do to prevent them and lessen their impact.

Featured National Experts

Nancy Johnson, RN, PHD

Daniel Miller, MD

William (Bill) Nash, MD

Cynda Hylton Rushton, PHD, RN,FAAN

Grace Wang, MD, MPH

Through videos, quotes and narrative commentary, featured experts share valuable tips and insights from their years of experience navigating moral distress and injury in health care.

Select topics include:

• Starting the Conversation
• Moral Distress and Moral Injury Defined
• Where You Work Matters
• Recognizing Clinical Situations That Cause Moral Distress and Moral Injury
• What You And Your Team Can Do
• How Leaders Can Help
• The Importance of Hope and Renewal

Use

While the magazine can be downloaded and viewed or printed as a PDF, viewing online will give access to the full set of interactive features and expanded content that is not available in a PDF version.

• All content development and review guided by the needs and preferences of front-line providers
• Flexible use for individual or team training in clinical sites or classroom settings
• Articles may be used selectively and in any sequence
• Magazine as a whole, or individual articles and activities, can be easily integrated into pre-existing courses, modules or other offerings
• Interactive, self-paced and asynchronous
• Mobile-friendly