Authors : Fatemeh Darabzadeh, Abbas Abbaszadeh, Nezhat Shakeri, Zahra Safavibayat and Fariba Borhani
Abstract: Nurses in their workplace are faced with many moral issues. Moral distress is one of the ethical issues that is affected identity and integrity of the nurse as committed person to ethics. The aim of this study is to determine the extent of moral distress nurses working in surgery department. This descriptive study was performed in 2016 on 123 nurses working in general surgery department of affiliated hospitals to Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences based on available sampling. To collect data was used of demographic information form and Corley moral distress questionnaire. In this study, 80/5 % of samples was women and the age average of the samples was 33/1±7 years. More samples (44/7%) of moral distress in both dimensions of frequency and severity of distress have been reported too much. Considering the high level of moral distress in nurses, presentation of continuing ethics training courses for nurses regarding familiarity with ethical issues including moral distress and how to deal with them seems necessary.
Fatemeh Darabzadeh, Abbas Abbaszadeh, Nezhat Shakeri, Zahra Safavibayat and Fariba Borhani, 2016. Surgical Nurses Perceptions of Moral Distress. Research Journal of Medical Sciences, 10: 412-415.