Understanding moral injury: a short film (HEE and NHSE&I)

Summary

Moral injury occurs following a morally injurious event, this can lead to negative thoughts about oneself or others developing, alongside feelings of shame, guilt or disgust.

This is one of a series of films to help healthcare workers think through some of the emotional and psychological challenges that may arise especially, but not limited, to a pandemic.

• Moral Injury chapters:
• 0:00 Start
• 0:52 What does Moral Injury actually mean?
• 4:03 What might it look like to me & my colleagues?
• 6:18 Will everyone eventually become injured?
• 8:09 What can I do to help myself & others?

Content

Support material:

• Mental health care for medical staff and affiliated healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Moral injury and the COVID-19 pandemic: reframing what it is, who it affects and how care leaders can manage it
• Moral injury. Psychoanalytic Psychology
• Moral Injury: The Invisible Epidemic in COVID Health Care Workers

This film has been commissioned by the London Transformation and Learning (LTLC), a joint initiative between Health Education England and NHE England and NHS Improvement aimed at supporting the cross-skilling of the London NHS workforce to manage.