Survey Results: "Gender and the Experience of Moral Distress in Critical Care Nurses"

Thanks for sharing.

"Moral distress in nurses has been correlated with ethical climate, leadership characteristics, nurse characteristics, collaboration and professional autonomy.Correlate verb (used with object)1.to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection: to correlate expenses and income.How do you mean, moral distress correlates with these things? I can't correlate moral distress with collaboration (or any of those other nouns); that doesn't make any sense. Do you mean, level of moral distress varies with different levels of those factors?

Quote from GrnTea"Moral distress in nurses has been correlated with ethical climate, leadership characteristics, nurse characteristics, collaboration and professional autonomy.Correlate verb (used with object)1.to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection: to correlate expenses and income.How do you mean, moral distress correlates with these things? I can't correlate moral distress with collaboration (or any of those other nouns); that doesn't make any sense. Do you mean, level of moral distress varies with different levels of those factors?

Quote from dolcebellalunaPerhaps she meant to add a qualifier such as "low levels of moral distress in nurses has been correlated with ethical climate, leadership characteristics, nurse characteristics, collaboration and professional autonomy"? I'm not sure it makes much more sense that way but I think it might just be a good idea phrased badly.

Can you post the "Hamric’s Moral Distress Scale-Revised"? I missed your survey.

"Female mean moral distress scores were 112.75 compared to 60.43 in males."

Food for thought, I found a similar paper by a graduate nursing student: http://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/h...pdf?sequence=1. I haven't read it all yet because it's 50+ pages, but it should prove interesting in response to the above study.