RT Article
T1 Moral distress in nurses in oncology and haematology units
JF Nursing ethics
VO 19
IS 2
SP 183
OP 195
A1 Lazzarin, Michela
A1 Biondi, Andrea
A1 Di Mauro, Stefania
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2012
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1779450079
AB One of the difficulties nurses experience in clinical practice in relation to ethical issues in connection with young oncology patients is moral distress. In this descriptive correlational study, the Moral Distress Scale-Paediatric Version (MDS-PV) was translated from the original language and tested on a conventional sample of nurses working in paediatric oncology and haematology wards, in six north paediatric hospitals of Italy. 13.7% of the total respondents claimed that they had changed unit or hospital due to moral distress. The items with the highest mean intensity in the sample were almost all connected with medical and nursing competence and have considerably higher values than frequency. The instrument was found to be reliable. The results confirmed the validity of the MDS-PV (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.959). This study represents the first small-scale attempt to validate MDS-PV for use in paediatric oncology-ematology nurses in Italy.
K1 Turnover
K1 staff nurse stress
K1 painful feeling
K1 paediatric haematology and oncology
K1 Moral Distress
K1 instrument translation
K1 Ethics
DO 10.1177/0969733011416840