Hospital ethical climate survey - selected psychometric properties of the scale and results among polish nurses and midwives.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The hospital ethical climate affects the quality of nursing care. A positive ethical climate is likely to reduce the proportion of those who consider leaving the profession, so it is necessary to develop tools which will enable assessment and analysis of the hospital ethical climate. The aim of this study was to examine selected psychometric properties of the Polish version of the Hospital Ethical Climate Survey, assess the hospital ethical climate perceived by nurses and midwives from Polish hospitals, and to determine its correlations with job-related variables.

Methods

A cross-sectional study among 558 nurses and midwives working in hospitals in Poland.

Results

The 21-item model showed acceptable model fitness between the hypothetical model of ethical cl

SUBMITTER: Dziurka M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9628138 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature