Moral distress among nurses in caring COVID-19 patients


Rosyidah Arafat, - and Takdir Tahir, - and Akbar Harisa, - (2021) Moral distress among nurses in caring COVID-19 patients. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/journals-permissions.

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Abstract (Abstrak)

During the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses experienced tremendous dilemmas including the need to perform their duties in caring for patients while they have concerns about contracting the disease. This study described the moral distress of nurses in-charge of handling COVID-19 patients which can be used as baseline data for intervention programs in over- coming moral distress among nurses. This descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted with nurses in-charge of handling COVID-19 treatment rooms. Before conducting the survey, ethical approval was obtained from the Medical Faculty of Universitas Hasanuddin. Questionnaires on moral distress for clinical nurses and the demographic data ques- tionnaire were distributed to 128 respondents. These nurses experienced relatively low levels of moral distress despite the fact that they were generally exposed to morally stressful situations. Education background appeared as a factor influ- encing this condition, in which higher moral distress was mostly experienced by nurses with undergraduate education.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: R Medicine > RT Nursing
Depositing User: - Andi Anna
Date Deposited: 16 Mar 2022 01:58
Last Modified: 16 Mar 2022 01:58
URI: http://repository.unhas.ac.id:443/id/eprint/14263

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