Experience of Nurses Vs Patients on Some Moral Issues while Nursing-care: A Qualitative Study from Iran

Abstract

Moral issues in nursing care are frequently come across, which is due to pursuing an important role by nurses in decision-making and patient care. Hence, identifying the problems and ethical issues from nurses and knowledge regarding the principles, regulations, and codes of ethics altogether provide direction for the right decisions. The aim of the present study is to investigate the ethical issues experienced by nurses and patients and its adaptation to the nursing ethics code. The study was carried out with content analysis approach and compliance with the nursing ethics code, where 17 nurses and 10 patients of Tabriz University of medical sciences participated. The conflicts were the negligence in nursing care, lack of nurses' intrinsic motivation, the conflict between the present and the desired status of nursing care, inadequate training in the field of skills and professional ethics, the inappropriateness of the number of nurses-patients, the weakness in Identifying and decisively addressing immoral practices.