The moral distress of nurses in health centers in the city of Bam in 1390

Increasingly accelerated progress in biomedical technologies in recent decades, has been associated with an increased tendency to ethical issues. The nurses as health staff are constantly in situations which require them to make decisions. They face, every day during the struggle in their working environment with a variety of psychological stresses. The moral distress affects on all aspects their personal and professional lives. The purpose of this study is to determine the moral distress of nurses in health centers of Bam in 1390.

This study was a descriptive cross-sectional study on 140 nurses working in the medical centers the city of Bam. Data were collected from the moral distress questionnaire, the reliability and validity of which were measured in other studies as measured, were collected. Data analysis was performed by using descriptive statistics and one-way ANOVA.

The findings show that the intensity of moral distress among nurses is 5/04. Significant relationships between age (p =0/ 00), work (p =0/ 01), the amount of interaction and collaboration between physicians and nurses (p =0/ 00), decision-making in leave the job and resigning (p =0/ 00), job promotion opportunities (p =0/ 03), feeling of job security (p =0/ 00), the amount of support from hospital administrators (p =0/ 00) with the moral distress of nurses have been observed.

Nothing that the moral distress of nurses participating in the study is too high membership of courses of action to reduce it Seems necessary including: nurses at the hospital ethics committees making preparations to consult and express stressing ethical situations and teaching confrontational strategies with moral distress may be helpful in this regard.