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. 2023 Sep 3;12(4):241-247.
doi: 10.34172/jcs.2023.30501. eCollection 2023 Dec.

The Relationship between Moral Intelligence and Patient Safety Culture in Nurses

Seyed Ali Majidi  1 , Zeinab Fakoorfard  2 , Hamideh Safarmohammadi  3 , Ehsan Kazemnezhad Leily  4
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The Relationship between Moral Intelligence and Patient Safety Culture in Nurses

Seyed Ali Majidi et al. J Caring Sci. .

Abstract

Introduction: Ethical issues are among the first concerns and important issues in the daily care of nurses, so that nurses always try to maintain and observe them in order to provide better and more basic care to patients. Moral intelligence (MI) can provide a framework for the proper functioning of nurses. The main purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between patient safety culture and the MI of nurses working in hospitals in Iran, Guilan province.

Methods: In the present study which was descriptive and correlational research, the sample was 400 nurses from Iran. Data were collected by a standardized and modified questionnaire "Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC)", and "Lennick & Kiel's Moral Intelligence Scale". The collected data were analyzed by Spearman correlation and Friedman test via SPSS software version 13.

Results: The findings of the study showed that the relationship between the patient safety culture and MI, was significant, and the total MI score (P<0.0001 and r=0.30).

Conclusion: There is a positive correlation between MI of nurses and patient safety culture. Therefore, planning to increase the MI of nurses can lead to improve patients' safety culture.

Keywords: Moral intelligence; Nurses; Patient safety culture.

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