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This study aimed at investigation of the relationship between perceived organizational justice and moral distress in intensive care unit nurses.
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The nature of the nursing profession pays more attention to ethics of healthcare than its therapeutic dimension. One of the prevalent moral issues in this profession is moral distress. Moral distress appears more in intensive care units due to the widespread need for moral decision-making regarding treatment and care in emergency situations. In this connection, organizational justice is of high importance and, as a significant motivational tool, leaves important impacts upon attitude and behavior of personnel.
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there was a reverse significant relationship between moral distress and perceived organizational justice; therefore, the head nurses are expected to contribute to reduce moral distress and to increase perceived organizational justice in nurses.
Professor Foroozan Atashzadeh-Shoorideh
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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This page is a summary of: Relationship between perceived organizational justice and moral distress in intensive care unit nurses, Nursing Ethics, July 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0969733017712082.
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