TY  - JOUR
T1  - Surgical Nurses Perceptions of Moral Distress
AU - Borhani, Fariba AU - Darabzadeh, Fatemeh AU - Abbaszadeh, Abbas AU - Shakeri, Nezhat AU - Safavibayat, Zahra 
JO  - Research Journal of Medical Sciences
VL  - 10
IS  - 4
SP  - 412
EP  - 415
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1815-9346
DO  - rjmsci.2016.412.415
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=rjmsci.2016.412.415
KW  - Moral distress
KW  -nurse
KW  -surgery department
KW  -affliated hospitals
KW  -demographic
AB  - 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.
ER  -