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    ER Journal Summary - Effects of An Ethical Empowerment Program On Critical Care Nurses' Ethical Decision-Making

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    This study examined the effects of an ethical empowerment program on the ethical decision-making of 60 critical care nurses in Iran. The nurses were randomly assigned to either an experimental group that received the ethical empowerment workshop or a control group. Both groups completed a moral sensitivity questionnaire before and after the workshop, and again 2 months later. The results showed that the experimental group had a significant increase in their ethical sensitivity scores immediately after and 2 months following the workshop, compared to the control group. The study concluded that the ethical empowerment program improved the nurses' ethical sensitivity and decision-making over time.

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    This study examined the effects of an ethical empowerment program on the ethical decision-making of 60 critical care nurses in Iran. The nurses were randomly assigned to either an experimental group that received the ethical empowerment workshop or a control group. Both groups completed a moral sensitivity questionnaire before and after the workshop, and again 2 months later. The results showed that the experimental group had a significant increase in their ethical sensitivity scores immediately after and 2 months following the workshop, compared to the control group. The study concluded that the ethical empowerment program improved the nurses' ethical sensitivity and decision-making over time.

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    This study examined the effects of an ethical empowerment program on the ethical decision-making of 60 critical care nurses in Iran. The nurses were randomly assigned to either an experimental group that received the ethical empowerment workshop or a control group. Both groups completed a moral sensitivity questionnaire before and after the workshop, and again 2 months later. The results showed that the experimental group had a significant increase in their ethical sensitivity scores immediately after and 2 months following the workshop, compared to the control group. The study concluded that the ethical empowerment program improved the nurses' ethical sensitivity and decision-making over time.

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    This study examined the effects of an ethical empowerment program on the ethical decision-making of 60 critical care nurses in Iran. The nurses were randomly assigned to either an experimental group that received the ethical empowerment workshop or a control group. Both groups completed a moral sensitivity questionnaire before and after the workshop, and again 2 months later. The results showed that the experimental group had a significant increase in their ethical sensitivity scores immediately after and 2 months following the workshop, compared to the control group. The study concluded that the ethical empowerment program improved the nurses' ethical sensitivity and decision-making over time.

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    “Effects of an ethical empowerment program on critical care nurses’ ethical decision-


    making.”
    SUMMARY:
    Nurses require empowerment if they are to make ethical decisions. Ethical empowerment
    has always been one of the main concerns in nurse training programs. The present study was
    conducted to determine the effect of an ethical empowerment program on critical care nurses’
    ethical decision-making. This is a clinical trial study with two groups and pre and post design.
    Participants and research context: In this study, 60 nurses working in Intensive Care Unit were
    selected through random sampling and then divided into a control and an experimental group after
    filling out the Moral Sensitivity Questionnaire. Both groups completed the questionnaire again
    immediately and 2 months after the ethical empowerment workshop had been held for the
    experimental group. The collected data were analyzed in SPSS-16 using descriptive and inferential
    statistics. The goals of the study were explained to the participants and then a written informed
    consent was received from them. The results showed no significant differences between the two
    groups in terms of their ethical sensitivity scores at the beginning of the study; however,
    immediately and 2 months after the intervention, the mean score increased significantly in the
    experimental group. Moreover, the scores obtained 2 months after the workshop increased
    compared to the pre-intervention scores but showed a drop compared to the scores reported
    immediately after the workshop. The ethical empowerment program, given to the critical care
    nurses in this study, improved their ethical sensitivity in making decisions significantly over time.
    Despite the extensive methods, available for teaching nursing ethics, the ethical empowerment
    program, adopted in this study, had long-lasting effects in terms of ameliorating the process of
    ethical decision-making in clinical situations. The ethical empowerment of nurses requires the
    adoption and application of proper methods and patterns of complying with nursing ethics.
    REFLECTION:
    In relation to our clinical rotation, we are assigned at the Emergency Room which is one of
    the most critical departments in the hospital along with the ICU and the CCU. In the Emergency
    Department, decision making should be fast and assertiveness is a skill to be mastered. According
    to the journal, he key principle in ethical decision-making is ethical sensitivity. Ethical sensitivity
    makes nurses sensitive about ethical issues in their workplace and enables them to make ethical
    decisions about the patients and thus makes the patients better trust the nursing services they
    receive.
    Nursing ethics should be a continued discussion throughout the nursing education and
    research because every special case, a lot of considerations should be done in order to do what is
    best for the patient and decision making should be done together with the whole health care team
    and specially the patient’s family.
    Ethical Empowerment Program should also be practiced in our hospitals because every day,
    nurses face different dilemmas regarding ethical consideration where up to now, there is no definite
    solutions to a dilemma because every patient is different from each other.

    REFERENCE: Jamshidian, F., Shahriari, M., & Aderyani, M. R. (2018). Effects of an ethical
    empowerment program on critical care nurses’ ethical decision-making. Nursing Ethics,
    096973301875983. doi:10.1177/0969733018759830

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