The clinical question driving the inquiry for a quantitative research article is: For nurses who experience moral distress, how does adequate staffing of nurses compared to an inadequate number of scheduled nurses affect patient care and ethical professionalism?
Furthermore, a specific clinical question is created to address the aforementioned issue with a qualitative research article: How does the health care organization regulations positively or negatively effects nursing moral compass and professionalism with limited staffing for nurses.
Problem
The problem that this paper will address is how moral distress caused by an inadequate supply of nurses may increase medical errors and affect patient care. This rising concern …show more content…
The qualitative design is the survey provided to register nurses’ opinion and answers. In addition, the quantitative design is the data collected from the survey displaying common ethical issues. The concept of the article is to provide evidence of moral distress and ethical issues from the view point of the registered nurse in an acute care setting.
Methods
The method used was data obtained by means of the Corley’s MDS13 and Olson’s Hospital Ethical Climate Survey. The article written by Varcoe et al. provides qualitative and quantitative designs to indicate the effect of inadequate population of registered nurses increasing or developing moral distress that affects team building and patient care. The survey provided qualitative data, in which, open-ended questions were provided at the end of the survey. They are as …show more content…
What action, if any, did you take in the situation you described?
3. What effect, if any, do you think moral distress had on patient care in this situation?
In addition, the article provides a quantitative design from the number of participants’ similar answers and rationales of survey questions. As a result, a nominal percentage can be applied to the nursing population to provide evidence of moral distress induced by insufficient workfoce solutions.
Participants
The participants involved in the article Nurses’ Perceptions of and Responses to Morally Distressing Situations were 5 authors, Colleen Varcoe of the University of British Columbia, Canada, Bernie Pauly, Jan Storch, Lorelei Newton, Kara Makaroff of University of Victoria, Canada. In addition, a panel of experts was established to eliminate bias and certify crediable material. Furthermore, a survey package was distributed amongst 1700 registered nurses from a database that worked in British Columbia, Canada. The participants were randomly selected from a generated list, in which, they volunteered to participate and be contacted for research purposes and a requirement actively working in the acute care