Abstract: Background: Psychological safety and occupational well-being among nurses and healthcare teams have emerged as urgent priorities in the face of escalating work overload, psychological distress, and moral injury in contemporary healthcare environments. This scoping review maps and synthesizes the scientific literature on psychological safety and well-being in the workplace among nursing professionals, with a particular focus on empirical findings, theoretical contributions, and practical applications.....
Keywords: Psychological Safety; wellbeing; nursing professionals
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