Nurses’ Perspectives of Ethical Climate Investigation in Sari’s Educational Hospitals

Ethical Climate is an important aspect in organizational climate and a positive ethical climate is required for supporting the nurses’ professional actions. Therefore, it seems essential to do studies across the country in order to know about the hospitals climate. Hence, the aim of the present study was to survey the nurses’ perception of the ethical climate of the educational hospitals in Sari.This descriptive-analytical study was conducted on 151 randomly selected nurses in educational hospitals of Sari in 2016. A two-part questionnaire was used for data collection which the first part was related to demographic features and the second part was a standard ethical climate questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed in SPSS 19 software by using descriptive statistical tests, variance analysis and t-test.The participants’ average age was 31.56 ± 5.63. There were 60 male among the participants, 6 associated nurses, and 124 bachelors of nursing as well as 21 MSc. in nursing. Also 65 nurses had 1-5, 45 individuals had 5-10 as well as 41 of them had more than 10 years’ work experience. The relationship between perceived ethical climate of the nurses and participants’ demographic features was not significant.The results of this study indicated that the ethical climate of the educational hospitals of Sari was favorable.

Keywords:

Ethical Climate , Nurses , Sari