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  • Nursing Ethics
  • Healthcare Management
  • Organizational Psychology

Background:

  • Quality patient care relies on nurses' moral competencies.
  • Some nurses exhibit declining moral sensitivity and actions within organizations.
  • Understanding these changes is crucial for maintaining ethical healthcare standards.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore nurses' experiences with negative changes in their moral practice.
  • To investigate the impact of organizational climate on nurses' moral behavior.

Main Methods:

  • Qualitative study using inductive thematic analysis.
  • Conducted between February 2017 and September 2019.
  • Involved semi-structured interviews with 25 nurses.

Main Results:

  • A central theme of moral neutralization emerged within unethical moral climates.
  • Identified sub-themes: feeling discouraged, normalization, giving up, becoming a justifier, and moral indifference.
  • These processes explain some unethical behaviors observed in nurses.

Conclusions:

  • Unethical organizational climates can erode nurses' morality.
  • Deterioration in nurses' morality negatively affects patients and healthcare systems.
  • Addressing the moral climate is essential for ethical nursing practice.