DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2015.v03i09.049

Pages: 3380-3386

A moral distress is one of the major ethical issues that effects on the identity and integrity of the nurse as a being committed to ethics. This study aims to explore ethical distress and related factors were analyzed from the perspective of nurses. The materials and methods in this study was descriptive-analytic cross sectional study which all the nurses in the 22 Bahman and Hakim Hospitals of Neyshabur County, participated in it with total-counting method. Sample size of 162 was determined according to Morgan Table. To collect the data a three-part questionnaire including demographic characteristics was used, the ethical distress scale was reviewed by Corley and factors related to ethical distress were used. Data collected by SPSS version 18 and through descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were analyzed. In findings 34.6% of the nurses at the Hakim hospital and 65.4 %, of them in 22 Bahman hospitals were working. 37 % in the ICU, 24.7 % in EMS, 38.3 percent working in other sectors. In general, overall level of distress was moderate at both hospitals. Statistically significant correlation between the degree of distress with demographic data were not observed (p> o.o5). From the perspective of the hospital nurses' organizational and administrative features more than the personal characteristics of nurses and the individual characteristics of patients is useful to make effective moral distress. In Discussion and conclusion according to the results, since distress can affect nurses and the quality of nursing care, nursing staff should be planned to identify and control the factors affecting their moral distress.