Moral Distress in Nursing Students

NCT ID: NCT06258395

Last Updated: 2024-05-17

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 237 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-02-05
• Study Completion Date: 2024-04-30

Brief Summary

Moral Distress (MD), also known as moral distress, was first defined by Jameton in 1984 as "the distress experienced by a person in situations where it is almost impossible to follow the correct course of action due to institutional constraints, despite knowing the correct action to take." Like all health professionals, nursing students can observe conflicts, ethical dilemmas, ethical and moral problems at the individual, clinical and managerial levels during clinical practice, and can even be directly involved in these problems. This study aimed to investigate the effect of MD on attitudes towards clinical practices in nursing students who have started to provide clinical experience. The study will be conducted with 2nd, 3rd and 4th year students studying in the nursing department of a university.

Detailed Description

Competence in the nursing profession is of great importance in quality care practices, nurse leadership in teamwork, academic and clinical performance, both in terms of professionalism and the quality of life of patients. Competence in the profession is possible through clinical practices that allow gaining bedside experience after evidence-based theoretical knowledge. While clinical practices are of great importance for students to gain professional knowledge and skills, they also appear as a cause of stress. Care of the sick individual, not being able to find an adequate guide, lack of a role model, negative relationships with healthcare professionals in the clinic, clinical conditions being inadequate for students' knowledge and skills for practice, fear of making mistakes and failure in students, ethical dilemmas they witness in clinical practices and negative emotions as a result of ethical dilemmas. Many situations such as this increase stress in students. Adding moral distress to students' existing stress sources reduces clinical motivation. In this context, determining nursing students; attitudes towards clinical practices has an important place in improving students; motivation and perceptions of their professional lives. It is impossible to eliminate MD in the nursing profession, which focuses on people and touches people;s quality of life. In this case, it is of great importance to understand MD both in professional life and in nursing education, to agree on precautions and to ensure that students are strengthened in terms of MD. It will also affect the attitudes of students who are successful in MD management towards clinical practices at the desired level, and this will strengthen the quality of life of the individual and the society. This study aimed to investigate the effect of MD on attitudes towards clinical practices in nursing students who have started to provide clinical experience. It is anticipated that the results of this research will contribute to the literature and faculty members who take an active role in nursing education.

Conditions

Moral Distress

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: OTHER
• Study Time Perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL

Study Groups

Nursing 2st year

second year nursing students

No interventions assigned to this group

Nursing 3st year

third year nursing students

No interventions assigned to this group

Nursing 4st year

fourth year nursing students

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Being a 2nd, 3rd and 4th year student studying in the nursing department.
• Having clinical practice experience.
• Volunteering to participate in the study.

Exclusion Criteria

• Not volunteering to participate in the study.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 17 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 37 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Bilecik Seyh Edebali Universitesi

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

Bilecik Şeyh Edebali University

Bilecik, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Other Identifiers

Aysun Acun 3

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id