“…Similar results were seen in studies about moral suffering, since nurses possibly may not understand the power relations in which they are immersed, experiencing the effects of moral suffering, although unable to identify it as such (4) . Therefore, it has been identified that the moral suffering and burnout phenomena show separate signs that may not be associated to abandonment of the profession by nurses, but the remoteness of their values, beliefs and, finally, the ideals of the profession (3,6,26) , which may compromise exercising patient advocacy. The relationship between the variables of training time and professional experience and the construct negative implications for practicing advocacy revealed that recently graduated nurses and those with less time of professional experience showed greater disagreement regarding the negative consequences of practicing patient advocacy.…”