BACKGROUND Moral distress is caused by situations in which the ethically appropriate course of action is known but cannot be taken. Moral distress is thought to be a serious problem among nurses, particularly those who practice in critical care. It has been associated with job dissatisfaction and loss of nurses from the workplace and the profession. OBJECTIVES To assess the level of moral dis...

Although moral reasoning is able to account for some of the variability in moral behavior, much remains unexplained. Recently, a number of components of personality have been proposed as bridging the gap between moral reasoning and moral behavior. The present study investigates the role that identity integration (the extent to which one’s moral values have become integrated into identity) and r...

Objectives: To develop a questionnaire on attitudes to moral decision making in youth sport and describe the levels of ethical attitudes in young competitors. Method and results: The Attitudes to Moral Decisions in Youth Sport Questionnaire (AMDYSQ) was developed through 5 qualitative and quantitative studies. First, 11 focus group interviews with 50 competitors, aged 11 to 17 years, identified...

Accumulations of health and social problems challenge current health systems. It is hypothesized that professionals should renew their expertise by adapting generalist, coaching, and population health orientation capacities to address these challenges. This study aimed to develop and validate an instrument for evaluating this renewal of professional expertise. The (Dutch) Integrated Care Expert...

A pro-environmental orientation is theorized to be an important predictor of public and private behavior. As such, measuring component in environmental psychology politics research. In this paper, we assess two well-established scales, the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) Connectedness Nature Scale (CNS), on how well they measure underlying construct orientation. The items these scales offer stron...

moral distress and professional stress are common problems that can have adverse effects on nurses, patients, and the healthcare system as a whole. thus, this cross-sectional study aims to examine the relationship between moral distress, professional stress, and intent to stay in the nursing profession. two hundred and twenty full-time nurses employed at teaching hospitals in the eastern region...

PURPOSE Moral orientation can affect ethical decision-making. Very few studies have focused on whether medical education can change the moral orientation of the students. The purpose of the present study was to document the types of moral orientation exhibited by medical students, and to study if their moral orientation was changed after preclinical education. METHODS From 2007 to 2009, the M...