[Nurses involved in adverse events: worrying moral suffering].

Abstract

In a culture of safety and risk management that seeks to prevent serious adverse events in healthcare environments, we rarely consider what the caregivers involved in these events experience. Studies of nurses show that they experience a range of feelings and sometimes symptoms similar to those found in post-traumatic shock. This text looks back at the experience of nurses as moral suffering, focusing on the offence of a healthcare system and the betrayal of a promise at the heart of the caring relationship.