Evaluation of Moral Courage in Nurses According to Individual Characteristics

Yıl 2025, Cilt: 10 Sayı: 1, 1 - 7

Fatma Tanrıkulu , Mustafa Demir , Rümeysa Demir

https://doi.org/10.26453/otjhs.1490234

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Objective: The study aimed to evaluate the moral courage of the nurses according to their socio-demographic characteristics.
Materials and Methods: This study was cross-sectional and descriptive. A total of 214 volunteer nurses working in a private hospital were included in this study. ‘Individual Characteristics Form’ and ‘Nurses’ Moral Courage Scale’ are the data collection tools of this study.
Results: The median value of the participants' “Moral Courage Scale in Nurses” was 86.0.
In the study, statistical significance was found between the mean ranks of moral courage and nurses' level of education, years of experience in the profession, whether they worked as a clinical or manager nurse, the department they worked in, and whether they received ethics training (p<0.05).
Conclusions: In this study, it was determined that nurses were moderately morally courageous. The fact that moral courage was found to be at a higher level among nurses who had been working for less than a year showed that nurses who were new to the profession possessed a heightened awareness of moral courage. It is thought that it would be useful to evaluate moral courage in nurses and student nurses through prospective and qualitative studies in future studies.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Ethics, moral courage, nurses

Etik Beyan

The study was approved by the Non-Interventional Clinical Research Ethics Committee from Istanbul Medipol University. (Date: 26/07/2022, decision no: 648). The necessary permissions for the measurement instruments to be used in the study were obtained from the authors by email. The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.

Hemşirelerde Ahlaki Cesaretin Bireysel Özelliklerine Göre Değerlendirilmesi

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Amaç: Araştırmanın amacı hemşirelerin sosyodemografik özelliklerine göre ahlaki cesaretini değerlendirmektir.
Materyal ve Metot: Bu çalışma kesitsel ve tanımlayıcı niteliktedir. Çalışmaya özel bir hastanede görev yapan toplam 214 gönüllü hemşire dahil edilmiştir. ‘Bireysel Özellikler Formu’ ve ‘Hemşirelerde Ahlaki Cesaret Ölçeği’ bu çalışmanın veri toplama araçlarıdır.
Bulgular: Araştırmada “Hemşirelerde Ahlaki Cesaret Ölçeği” median değerinin 86.0 olduğu belirlendi. Hemşirelerin eğitim düzeyi, meslekte çalışma yılı, servis ya da yönetici hemşire olarak çalışma durumu, çalıştıkları klinik türü ve etik-ahlak konularında eğitim alma durumu ile ahlaki cesaret sıra ortalamaları arasında istatistiksel açıdan anlamlı farklılık olduğu belirlendi (p<0,05).
Sonuç: Bu çalışmadan elde edilen veriler doğrultusunda hemşirelerin orta düzeyde ahlaki açıdan cesaretli olduğu belirlendi. Özellikle bir yıl altında çalışan hemşirelerde ahlaki cesaretin daha yüksek düzeyde saptanmış olması mesleğe yeni başlayan hemşirelerin bu kavramın farkında olduklarını ortaya koydu. Bu sonuç hasta bakım kalitesi, hasta savunuculuğu ve hemşirelik mesleği açısından sevindiricidir. Gelecek çalışmalarda hemşirelerde ve öğrenci hemşirelerde ahlaki cesaretin prospektif ve kalitatif çalışmalar ile değerlendirilmesinin yararlı olacağı düşünülmektedir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Etik, ahlaki cesaret, hemşireler

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