New concept in clinical care: proposal of a moral intelligence scale

Abstract

Effective communication, especially of those health professionals in management positions, contributes to the entire process of treating patients and can transform the quality of service into the processes of diagnosis, treatment and care. Managers with moral intelligence are able to distinguish right from wrong and can facilitate the relationship between health professionals and patients. e purpose of this study is to develop a scale to measure moral intelligence. e measurement tool created by the Lawshe method was applied to 789 health professionals. Following the calculations of the Content Validity Ratio and the Content Validity Index, the scale included 77 items. After applying it, with the subsequent exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, the scale received its final form with 47 items. e Cα value of the scale is 0.966. e scale has seven dimensions, and they have been defined as "equality", "empathy", "moral intelligence", "justice", "tolerance", "self-control" and "kindness". e Cα values for these dimensions are determined respectively as 0.922, 0.910, 0.874, 0.859, 0.799, 0.840 and 0.772; demonstrating that the scale allows to study the moral intelligence of nurses and doctors. e scale developed had high Cronbach alpha values for each component and element, indicating that the scale provides a survey with high validity to measure the moral intelligence of doctors and nurses. Factor analysis shows a statistically valid distribution of items and components.Taking into account the moral intelligence parameters in the provision of health services will contribute to accurately diagnose disorders, reduce patient anxiety, ensure a shorter hospital stay, reduce the number of patients transferred to other health centers, to prevent negligence, save time and achieve better workforce planning.

Aesthetic Attitude Based on Kant’s Aesthetics of Caring Relationships in Nursing

“…In the nursing literature, characteristics of caring have been discussed and explored as a moral practice in virtue ethics rather than in principles-based ethics [ 4 , 5 , 6 ]. Nurses who have the virtue that includes emotional understanding as a characteristic can exhibit appropriate feelings toward a patient genuinely [ 7 , 8 , 9 ]. Notably, their altruistic emotion to help others is regarded as an aesthetic characteristic which is as essential as a moral characteristic in a caring relationship between a nurse and patient [ 10 , 11 ], although the concept of aesthetic characteristic is vaguely discussed in the field of nursing.…”

Reflection of nurses' moral intelligence levels on care behaviors

“…Healthcare providers, including nurses, must act in such a way that requires moral intelligence, awareness, and application of its parameters in their professional life (Oztürk et al, 2019). As a result, nursing researchers should pay greater attention to the idea of moral intelligence to facilitate its implementation in their environment (Sabetsarvestani & HadianShirazi, 2021).…”