Ethical Activity Profile of Nurse Managers -Testing Ethics Quarter as an Intervention
NCT ID: NCT04234503
Last Updated: 2020-12-16
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
341 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2020-03-02
2020-12-07
Brief Summary
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1. to test a new ethics educational intervention for nurse mangers, Ethics Quarter (EQ) and
2. to measure the feasibility and the usability of the EQ
The detailed research questions and hypothesis of this study are as follows:
1. Is EQ effective in increasing NMs' ethics knowledge?
2. Is EQ effective in increasing NMs' influencing ethics issues?
3. Is EQ effective in increasing NMs' ethics research implementing?
4. Is EQ effective in increasing NMs' ethics problem identifying?
5. Is EQ effective in increasing NMs' ethics problem solving?
H 1-5: It is hypothesized that participating into EQ promotes NM's ethics knowledge, influencing ethics issues, ethics research implementing, ethics problem identifying and ethics problem solving compared to comparisons.
6. What are NM's perceptions of feasibility and usability of the EQ?
The ultimate goal is to strengthen nurse managers' ethical activity profile and create a new, modern way to promote ethical management of nursing.
Detailed Description
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Effectiveness of EQ intervention will be tested by using an individually randomized controlled trial with baseline-, post- and follow-up-measurements.The intervention group will participate in the educational EQ intervention and the control group will not participate.
Data will be collected via the membership register of the Union of Health and Social Care Professionals in Finland (Tehy) trade union. This union is a national interest group for nurses, nurse managers and advanced consultants/specialists in the social and health-care sector having a Master's degree (nursing science or related) or registered nurses degree.
Based on statistical power analysis, the required sample size for the study will be 87 NMs at both groups, at 80%, 0.05 significance level.
Conditions
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Keywords
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
BASIC_SCIENCE
NONE
Study Groups
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Ethics Quarter
Nurse managers perform 12 educational packages in web-page www.etiikanvartti.fi.
Ethics Quarter
In the intervention, nurse managers have two educational packages per week, one taking 15 minutes (one quarter).The structure of the whole intervention is made according to the dimensions of ethical activity profile of nurse managers (Laukkanen et al. a2016; Laukkanen et al b2016) consisting of managers:
1. Developing of own ethics knowledge,
2. Influencing ethical issues,
3. Conducting/implementing ethics research,
4. Identifying and
5. Solving ethical problems.
Intervention includes also orientation and summary, in total 12 educational packages.
After every dimension, NMs have to make self-reflection and development plans, in total five times. This provides them the opportunity to link their everyday experience with ethical theory.
Standard organisational ethics structures
Nurse managers continue in their standard organisational ethics structures
No interventions assigned to this group
Interventions
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Ethics Quarter
In the intervention, nurse managers have two educational packages per week, one taking 15 minutes (one quarter).The structure of the whole intervention is made according to the dimensions of ethical activity profile of nurse managers (Laukkanen et al. a2016; Laukkanen et al b2016) consisting of managers:
1. Developing of own ethics knowledge,
2. Influencing ethical issues,
3. Conducting/implementing ethics research,
4. Identifying and
5. Solving ethical problems.
Intervention includes also orientation and summary, in total 12 educational packages.
After every dimension, NMs have to make self-reflection and development plans, in total five times. This provides them the opportunity to link their everyday experience with ethical theory.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Finnish-speaking
Exclusion Criteria
ALL
No
Sponsors
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Turku University Hospital
OTHER_GOV
Responsible Party
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Laura Laukkanen
Principal Investigator
Locations
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Finland
Turku, , Finland
Countries
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References
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Laukkanen L, Suhonen R, Poikkeus T, Loyttyniemi E, Leino-Kilpi H. The effectiveness of the Ethics Quarter intervention on the ethical activity profile of nurse managers: A randomized controlled trial. J Nurs Manag. 2022 Oct;30(7):2126-2137. doi: 10.1111/jonm.13411. Epub 2021 Jul 21.
Related Links
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Ethical activity profile of nurse managers.
Solving work-related ethical problems.
Proposed criteria for reporting the development and evaluation of complex interventions in healthcare (CReDECI): guideline development.
Other Identifiers
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EQ-i
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id