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Traits of professions and phases of Australian nursing's professionalisation (Goode 1957; Greenwood 1957; Keleher 2014; Wilensky 1964)
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Professional identity is a social identity that is informed by the experience of being a member of a professional group and undertaking work activities within a specific professional jurisdiction. Despite a dominant ideology of professionalism within university based nursing degrees, in practice, professional identity among nurses is often marked b...
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... Tables Table 1 Traits of professionalism and phases of Australian Nursing's professionalisation 46 Table 2 Sample characteristics 92 Table 3 CCNs' Roles in the ICU 93 ...Context 2
... (1978: 139-40) defines professionalisation as 'process… (in which) an occupation passes through predictable stages of organisational change, the end state of which is professionalism'. Table 1 (on the following page) sets out professional traits and phases of professionalisation that inform nursing's professionalism and professional identity. ...Similar publications
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... Nurses frequently face ethical dilemmas in their daily practice that challenge their moral convictions [1][2][3]. These situations may involve conflicting beliefs and values that can impact the quality of nursing care provided [4][5][6][7]. Possessing moral courage is essential to address these challenges, as it reinforces ethical conduct and enables nurses to carry out courageous actions in patient care [8,9]. ...
... Moral sensitivity, conscience, and experience are prerequisites for moral courage which results in personal and professional growth and empowerment [14]. In a study on moral courage in nurses, it was defined as taking appropriate action, defending rights and implementing ethical principles to provide care to patients, even in the face of personal risks and threats [6]. ...
Background
Having moral courage is a crucial characteristic for nurses to handle ethical quandaries, stay true to their professional obligations towards patients, and uphold ethical principles. This concept can be influenced by various factors including personal, professional, organizational, and leadership considerations. The purpose of this study was to explore the predictors of moral courage among nurses working in hospitals.
Methods
In 2018, an observational cross-sectional study was carried out on 267 nurses employed in six hospitals located in the northern region of Iran. The participants were selected through a simple random sampling technique. To collect data, a demographic information form was used along with two questionnaires. The first questionnaire was a standard survey on moral courage, while the second questionnaire was designed to assess the ethical climate. Linear regression was used to assess the predictors of moral courage.
Results
Nurses had an average moral courage score of 87.07 ± 15.52 and an average moral climate score of 96.12 ± 17.17. The study showed that 16% of the variation in moral courage scores among nurses was explained by ethical climate and monthly overtime hours.
Conclusion
This study underscores the significance of establishing an ethical work environment and minimizing overtime hours in order to enhance moral courage among nurses. These findings carry weight for both nursing practice and organizational policies focused on fostering ethical conduct within healthcare settings.
... With this in mind, we conceptualise professional identity as socially constructed whereby it is constituted by context-bound meaning-making processes that occur through social interactions with others and the surrounding environment (Berger & Luckmann, 1966). From this, professional identity is actively constructed and reconstructed, prior to, and throughout education and practice (Belle, 2017;Fitzgerald, 2020). ...
... Subordinate groups engage in strategies of inclusion to resist exclusion, and dual closure (usurpation and exclusion) to counteract demarcation, thereby aiming to extend their occupational control. In this way, health professions exist in relative competition for control over work areas as new professions emerge, expand, and encroach on jurisdictional boundaries in response to technological, organisational, and socio-cultural changes (Belle, 2017;Fitzgerald, 2020). ...
... In the case of speciality nurses, research suggests that professional identity is distinguished by values, beliefs and work activities associated with their practice area rather than the nursing profession generally (Belle, 2017;Kunhunny & Salmon, 2017). These findings suggest that professional identity is an ongoing project, rather than identifiable by a singular feature or one defined timepoint. ...
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... In their daily activities, nurses encounter problems and issues that might be inconsistent with their moral values (Dehghani et al., 2020;Numminen et al., 2018;Ranjbar et al., 2018). In other words, nurses might face with controversial beliefs and values in doing the right thing and these might affect providing quality nursing care (Belle, 2017;Mahdaviseresht et al., 2015;Mousazadeh et al., 2019). It is essential therefore, to have moral courage as a strategy to reinforce ethics and doing courageous deeds in nursing care (Bickhoff et al., 2017;Hawkins et al., 2014). ...
Background: Moral courage, as a strategy to reinforce ethics and doing courageous deeds, is essential in providing nursing cares. Proper management of ethical challenges, professional commitment to patients, and ethical performance require moral courage. In addition, this concept is affected by personal and professional traits and organizational cultural. Ethical climate is a part of organization character, represents ethics in the organization. Ethical climate helps individuals to assess the problems and also acts as a guide for making decision about acceptable and unacceptable behaviors. The present study is an attempt to examine some of the predicting variables of moral courage in nurses.
Methods: The study was carried out as predictive study in 2019. The subjects were 267 nurses working in hospitals who were selected through simple random sampling. Data gathering tool included a demographics form, Sekerka’s job satisfaction standardized questionnaire, and Elson’s ethical climate standardized questionnaire.
Results: The mean scores of moral courage and ethical climate in nurses were 87.07±15.52 and 96.12±17.17 respectively. The findings showed that 16% of moral courage score in nurses was attributed to ethical climate and overtime work hours per month.
Conclusions: Although, ethical climate and overtime work hours were the main factors in moral courage, not a notable percentage of the variance of moral courage was attributed to them. Therefore, there is a need to determine other factors in moral courage.
Healthcare development mainly depends on nurses’ activities, since nurses often take much time in contacting patients during clinical activities. Their awareness of the hospital’s moral climate disturbs nurses’ attitudes and associated ethical concerns. Hospital ethical climates have become a crucial working area element for nurses to prepare and apply ethical judgments. The ethical climate is one feature of an institution that denotes the collective insights of morally correct activities and techniques of handling ethically varied conduct. Better consciousness of the difficulty of ethical problems in the health facility situation has powered attention to nursing ethics. Yet, there is insufficient data on the connection between nurses’ awareness of the ethical climate worldwide. Hospital ethical climate has been studied in several industrial countries for decades but has only been investigated in some developing countries in the past two decades. In general, the chapter explained the perception of nurses and correlation between hospital ethical climate and job satisfaction, and dimensions of job design.
Objectives
This study is conducted with the aim of the relationship between moral courage and the perception of ethical climate in hospital nurses.ResultsThe study was carried out as descriptive-correlation study in 2019. The subjects were 267 nurses working in hospitals who were selected through simple random sampling. Questionnaire was used to collect data. The mean scores of moral courage and ethical climate in nurses were 87.07±15.52 and 96.12±17.17 respectively. The findings showed that 16% of moral courage score in nurses was attributed to ethical climate and overtime work hours per month. Although, ethical climate and overtime work hours were the main factors in moral courage, not a notable percentage of the variance of moral courage was attributed to them. Therefore, there is a need to determine other factors in moral courage.
