What is it about?
This study aimed at determining the level of perceived organizational support and moral distress among nurses and investigating the relationship between the two variables.
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Why is it important?
Moral distress is prevalent in the health care environment at different levels. Nurses in all roles and positions are exposed to ethically challenging conditions. Development of supportive climates in organizations may drive nurses towards coping moral distress and other related factors.
Perspectives
The results of this study showed that the level of perceived organizational support was low in nurses and moral distress was high. Therefore, it is necessary to provide a supportive environment in hospitals and to consider strategies for diminishing moral distress. Also, the findings indicated that there was no significant correlation between perceived organizational support and moral distress. These results are not consistent with the findings of other studies on moral distress. It is recommended that a similar study be carried out with other measurement scales of organizational support and the results be compared and contrasted with our findings.
Professor Foroozan Atashzadeh-Shoorideh
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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This page is a summary of: Perceived organizational support and moral distress among nurses, BMC Nursing, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1186/s12912-017-0270-y.
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