Mohannad Aljabery, Isabel Coetzee-Prinsloo, Annatjie van der Wath, Eman Al-Awabdeh, Andries Masenge
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Abstract
Aim: To measure the outcome of the implementation of a multifaceted educational intervention on the impact of moral distress among critical care nurses.
Background: The complex nature of critical care settings exaggerates different morally distressing situations that require ongoing development of interventions to mitigate the impact of moral distress. Despite the availability of research that has addressed moral distress among nurses in the literature, there is a debate about the effectiveness of the applied interventions in reducing moral distress.
Design: A quasi-experimental pretest-posttest control group study design.
Methods: Critical care nurses in two public hospitals in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, UAE enrolled in a study that extended over 6 months. Hospital A was assigned as an experimental group (n = 76) and received four educational sessions and three booster sessions. Hospital B was assigned as a control group (n = 82) and didn't receive any moral distress-related education. The Measure of Moral Distress for Health Care Professionals questionnaire and the Moral Distress Thermometer were utilised to measure the participants' moral distress frequency, intensity, and composite scores pre- and post-intervention and identify the outcomes.
Results: The multifaceted educational intervention exhibited statistically significant reductions in the experimental group frequency, intensity, and composite moral distress scores post-test. Conversely, moral distress scores were increased among the control group. Moreover, the intervention significantly reduced the number of nurses who intended to leave their positions from 58 nurses to 47 nurses in the experimental group.
Conclusion: The multifaceted educational intervention exerts positive outcomes in reducing moral distress across all the dimensions and improving the nurses' retention.
Relevance to clinical practice: The intervention provides materials that could enhance the nurses' moral knowledge and skills. It provides different tools, techniques, and strategies to help the nurses address and manage their moral distress.
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The Journal of Clinical Nursing (JCN) is an international, peer reviewed, scientific journal that seeks to promote the development and exchange of knowledge that is directly relevant to all spheres of nursing practice. The primary aim is to promote a high standard of clinically related scholarship which advances and supports the practice and discipline of nursing. The Journal also aims to promote the international exchange of ideas and experience that draws from the different cultures in which practice takes place. Further, JCN seeks to enrich insight into clinical need and the implications for nursing intervention and models of service delivery. Emphasis is placed on promoting critical debate on the art and science of nursing practice.
JCN is essential reading for anyone involved in nursing practice, whether clinicians, researchers, educators, managers, policy makers, or students. The development of clinical practice and the changing patterns of inter-professional working are also central to JCN''s scope of interest. Contributions are welcomed from other health professionals on issues that have a direct impact on nursing practice.
We publish high quality papers from across the methodological spectrum that make an important and novel contribution to the field of clinical nursing (regardless of where care is provided), and which demonstrate clinical application and international relevance.
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