The Relationship Between Moral Courage and the Perception of Ethical Climate in Hospital Nurses

Abstract

ObjectivesThis study is conducted with the aim of the relationship between moral courage and the perception of ethical climate in hospital nurses.ResultsThe study was carried out as descriptive-correlation study in 2019. The subjects were 267 nurses working in hospitals who were selected through simple random sampling. Questionnaire was used to collect data. The mean scores of moral courage and ethical climate in nurses were 87.07±15.52 and 96.12±17.17 respectively. The findings showed that 16% of moral courage score in nurses was attributed to ethical climate and overtime work hours per month. Although, ethical climate and overtime work hours were the main factors in moral courage, not a notable percentage of the variance of moral courage was attributed to them. Therefore, there is a need to determine other factors in moral courage.