Madelon L Finkel, Helen-Ann Brown, Linda M Gerber, Phyllis G Supino
Teaching evidence-based medicine to medical students
Medical teacher
reducing nurses autonomy impair decisionmaking ability appropriate interventions lowered independence hinders ethical reasoning may lead moral distress descriptive correlation study investigates relationship professional independence moral distress 173 nurses working emergency departments tabriz iran data collected using questionnaires designed assess professional autonomy moral distress analysed using descriptive inferential statistics via spss 13 software level professional autonomy among emergency nurses low 832169 moral distress moderate 743352 statistically significant negative relationship reported professional independence frequency moral distress p0018 bivariate analysis related professional autonomy frequency intensity moral distress multiple regression analysis showed age significantly predicted moral distress frequency intensity total scores lack autonomy hinders nurses functioning effectively efficiently practice even lead moral distress increasing professional independence use experienced nurses mentors emergency settings support younger nurses help reduction moral distress