Social work is a demanding profession in which, almost every day, social workers are exposed to many ethical and emotional challenges. Despite this, there is not a large amount of research that talks about how social workers face ethical dilemmas in practice. What represents an ethical dilemma for one social worker does not necessarily represent an ethical dilemma for another social worker even in the context of the same workplace or in relation to the same situation. However, finding yourself in an ethical dilemma can be extremely intense, demanding and exhausting. Therefore, each social worker will have different ways of dealing with ethical dilemmas and different methods of maintaining and nurturing their moral resilience. Moral resilience is a concept that is slowly but surely gaining importance and deserves to be considered, developed and used as a way of transforming negative emotions associated with ethically and morally disturbing situations. 10 social workers employed in social welfare institutions in the Republic of Croatia participated in this research, and the goal was to gain insight into their experience of dealing with ethical dilemmas in professional work. The research results showed that the most common ethical dilemmas in the professional work of social workers are related to the legal framework, confidentiality, guardianship institute and limited resources, while they perceive their moral resilience through intrinsic motivation, separation of work and private life, support within the work team, spending free time and the possibility of changing the workplace.