Effectiveness of nursing advocacy on nurses' moral distress and job satisfaction in Bandar Abbas Download PDF

Background and objective: nursing advocacy of patients is responsible and moral practices of nurses, which are performed on behalf of the patients, and moral distress is unpleasant psychological experience created due to lack of performing proper moral action, despite its diagnosis. It seems that playing the role of nursing advocacy of patient can be effective in moral distress of nurses and their job satisfaction. Hence, the present study was conducted to determine the impact of nursing advocacy of patients on moral distress and satisfaction of nurses in hospitals of Bandar Abbas city in 2015. Methods: This study is a cross-sectional type of descriptive-analytical study. In this study, 135 nurses working in ICUs of three hospitals in Bandar Abbas were selected using convenience sapling. Nursing advocacy, job satisfaction, and moral distress questionnaires were used to collect data. Data were analyzed by SPSS 18 software and descriptive and inferential statistics were used in this regard. Results: The results of this study showed significant and positive relationship between nursing advocacy of patients and job satisfaction (r = 0.062, p≤0.0001) and negative and significant correlation between nursing advocacy and intensity (r = -0.029, p = 0.01) and repetition of moral distress of nurses ( p = 0.03), (r = -0.063). Conclusions: this study shows that playing the moral role of nursing advocacy of patients reduces nurses' moral distress, and provides the condition for their job satisfaction. It is recommended that by training and focusing on the moral roles of the nurses such as nursing advocacy of patients and managers and officials’ advocacy of playing the moral roles, the area to reduce moral distress and increased job satisfaction of nurses to be provided.