Abstract

Nursing is a profession rooted in ethics, yet nurses often find it difficult to navigate the ethical quandaries faced in clinical practice. The COVID-19 pandemic caused significant moral distress among staff. To support nurses and promote ethical reasoning, the Ethics Liaison Program for nursing was developed. The 36-hour program, run over nine months, proved to be highly effective in improving nurse work satisfaction, participant’s confidence and knowledge about ethics and ethical reasoning, connectivity to the clinical ethics service, and patient care. This article describes program development, implementation, and evaluation.