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Creating an environment where nurses can speak up is important having a practice environment that supports nurses in raising ethical questions and empowering them to address concerns. Leaders needs to be competent, credible, visible and an expert. Nurse leaders should incorporate behavior consistent with the code of ethics into job descriptions and consider that during annual performance reviews. Bring different disciplines together is also another way that a nurse leader can help with ethical and moral distresses. Working together could prove beneficial in addressing moral distress. Nurses especially troubled by an ethical issue--perhaps relating to something happening in their personal lives or how the current situation rekindles past events--may benefit from individual sessions with a counselor from an employee assistance program