Ethical Work Climate, Moral Courage, Moral Distress and Organizational Citizenship Behavior among nurses

Background: Ethical work climate and moral courage are important elements affecting nurses’ organizational citizenship behaviour.

Aim: Explore the relationships among ethical work climate, moral courage, moral distress and organizational citizenship behaviour among nurses at Zagazig University Hospitals.

Method: Used the descriptive design, and the stratified random sample to choose 384 nurses. Four tools were handled for data collection: Ethical climate questionnaire, professional moral courage scale, moral distress scale and organizational citizenship behaviour scale.

Results: Illustrates that 89.1% of nurses had positive perceptions of ethical work climate. Likewise, 85.4% and 83.1% of nurses had high levels of moral courage and moral distress, respectively, and 47.7% of them had a moderate level of organizational citizenship behaviour.

Conclusion and recommendations: Ethical work climate was significantly and positively correlated to moral courage and organizational citizenship behaviors and negatively with moral distress. Managers should maintain an ethical relationship with nurses that help them improve their performance.

Author(s): Abdeen MA , Atia NM

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