Ethical Activity Profile of Nurse Managers -Testing Ethics Quarter as an Intervention
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 341
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Changes in nurse managers' ethical activity profile level.
研究概览
简要总结
The aim of this study is:
- to test a new ethics educational intervention for nurse mangers, Ethics Quarter (EQ) and
- to measure the feasibility and the usability of the EQ
The detailed research questions and hypothesis of this study are as follows:
- Is EQ effective in increasing NMs' ethics knowledge?
- Is EQ effective in increasing NMs' influencing ethics issues?
- Is EQ effective in increasing NMs' ethics research implementing?
- Is EQ effective in increasing NMs' ethics problem identifying?
- Is EQ effective in increasing NMs' ethics problem solving?
H 1-5: It is hypothesized that participating into EQ promotes NM's ethics knowledge, influencing ethics issues, ethics research implementing, ethics problem identifying and ethics problem solving compared to comparisons. 6. What are NM's perceptions of feasibility and usability of the EQ?
The ultimate goal is to strengthen nurse managers' ethical activity profile and create a new, modern way to promote ethical management of nursing.
详细描述
A new educational intervention, EQ, for nurse managers has developed. Intervention development has evaluated by using criteria for complex interventions in health care (CReDECI)- guideline (Möhler et al. 2012). EQ intervention is based on distance learning method and it consists of 12 educational packages included in the virtual learning environment www.etiikanvartti.fi.
Effectiveness of EQ intervention will be tested by using an individually randomized controlled trial with baseline-, post- and follow-up-measurements.The intervention group will participate in the educational EQ intervention and the control group will not participate.
Data will be collected via the membership register of the Union of Health and Social Care Professionals in Finland (Tehy) trade union. This union is a national interest group for nurses, nurse managers and advanced consultants/specialists in the social and health-care sector having a Master's degree (nursing science or related) or registered nurses degree.
Based on statistical power analysis, the required sample size for the study will be 87 NMs at both groups, at 80%, 0.05 significance level.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Basic Science
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Working as a nurse manager
- •Finnish-speaking
排除标准
- •Unwilling to provide consent
结局指标
主要结局
Changes in nurse managers' ethical activity profile level.
时间窗: Baseline, week 6 and week 10
Ethical activity profile consists of five dimensions: 1) Developing of own ethics knowledge, 2) Influencing ethical issues, 3) Conducting/implementing ethics research, 4) Identifying and 5) Solving ethical problems. Dimensions 1-3 will be measured with Developing, Influencing and implementing ethics -instrument (DIIEI), Dimension 4 will be measured with Ethical Sensitivity Scale Questionnaire (ESSQ) and Dimension 5 will be measured with Nurses' Moral Courage Scale (NMCS) at baseline (before the intervention), week 6 (after the intervention) and week 10. Results of the all three instruments create one primary outcome measure, ethical activity profile level. All the instruments are 5-point Likert-scales (1=totally disagree; 5=totally agree/1= Does not describe me at all; 5= Describes me very well) and the higher scores indicate higher self-assessed ethical activity profile level.
次要结局
- Changes in nurse managers' knowledge level.(Baseline, week 6 and week 10)
- Nurse managers' perceptions of the feasibility and usability of EthicsQuarter.(Week 6)
研究者
Laura Laukkanen
Principal Investigator
University of Turku