I’m a new NP with an interest in biomedical ethics

I’m a second career nurse with over 10 years of experience. I’ve worked in blood banking, internal medicine and in the adult in-patient setting. Most of my nursing career has been spent in the acute care setting on a medical/surgical floor where I routinely cared for pre-and post-solid organ transplant, advanced lung disease, oncology and end-of-life patients. Throughout my career I’ve encountered a myriad of unresolved ethical problems and found myself experiencing profound moral distress and burnout. Several times I thought about changing jobs but ultimately decided to stay and in that process, learned how to manage my moral distress to reduce feelings of burnout.