Moral Distress and Turnover Intention among Critical Care Nurses in Saudi Arabia
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Bilal Abumayyaleh, Nursing Department, Almaarefa Colleges, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh.
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Omar Khraisat, Nursing Department, Almaarefa Colleges, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh.
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Shaher Hamaideh, Nursing College, Hashemite University, Jordan, Az-Zarqa.
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Adnan Ahmed, Nursing College, King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh.
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Imad Thultheen, Nursing Department, Alfarabi Colleges, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh.
The study aimed is to identify the relationship between moral distress and turnover intention among critical care nurses. A convenient sample of 200 critical care nurses was surveyed by Revised Moral Distress Scale and Turnover Intention Scale as a descriptive correlational cross-sectional study at teaching university hospital located in Riyadh the capital of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The result revealed that, critical care nurses reported a moderate level of moral distress. No significant association was indicated between moral distress intensity and frequency and nurses' turnover intention except a significant association between age (r =0 .17, P< 0.05), years of nursing experience (r = 0.19, P< 0.05), years of critical care experience (r = 0.18, P< 0.05) and turnover intention. There is a pressing need for conceptual work to generate a more vigorous understanding of moral distress in nursing practice and the relationship between moral distress and decision to leave position or nursing and the impact on patient care.
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