Colaco KA, et al. – This study was designed to understand ethics and education needs of emergency nurses and physicians in paediatric and adult emergency departments (EDs) in order to build ethics capacity and provide a foundation for the development of an ethics education programme. Compared with their physician colleagues, nurses reported a greater need for ethics education and resources. Ethical challenges in paediatric EDs were more prevalent compared with adult EDs and nurses voice specific moral distress that was different than adult EDs. These outcomes underscored the need for a suitable educational strategy, which could be developed in collaboration with the leadership of each ED and team of hospital ethicists.