Searching and Evaluating Cultural and Ethical Resources

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Searching and Evaluating Cultural and Ethical Resources

Introduction

Nursing can be considered an ethical practice and ethical problems are among the challenges that nurses must deal with in their line of duty. Also, nurses deal with patients from various cultural backgrounds in healthcare settings. Since nursing staff shortage is a significant problem that has reached a warning threshold, it is important to understand whether ethical and cultural issues that nurses have to deal with contribute to nursing staff shortage, and if so, how this issue can be dealt with.

Karakachian and Colbert (2019) examine the effect of nursing staff moral distress on nurses’ burnout and intentions to quit their jobs. The authors reveal that burnout is among the major reasons why nurses leave their jobs or even the nursing profession. Nurses encounter various situations in which they face various ethical challenges leading to moral distress. Moral distress relates to people’s professional integrity that constrains them from taking ethically correct actions (Karakachian & Colbert, 2019). This article is credible because it is a peer-reviewed journal article. This implies that the quality of the article has been critically evaluated by the journal editors and other expert scholars. This article will be useful in addressing the chosen healthcare issue which is the nursing shortage as it identifies one of the major ethical factors causing the shortage of nurses and provides a recommendation on how to deal with it.

Palazoğlu and Koç (2019) explore the relationship between ethical sensitivity level of emergency service nurses and the nurses’ burnout and job satisfaction levels. According to Palazoğlu and Koç (2019), ethical problems reduce job satisfaction of emergency service nurses resulting in burnout. The authors reveal that some of the factors that lead to ethical problems in nursing facilities include the simultaneous provision of care to many patients, hasty decision-making, frequent experiences of pain, death, disability, and other distressing events, long working hours, and difficulties in communicating with patients and their relatives. Authors established that cultural sensitivity assists in reducing burnout among emergency service nurses and increases their job satisfaction. This article is credible since it is based on original research, where a cross-sectional study was conducted to establish the relationship between these variables. This article will be useful in addressing the nursing staff shortage because it identifies one way of reducing nurse burnout and increasing job satisfaction. These are among the main contributors to nurse shortages.

Asl and Fesharaki (2019) examine the association between nurses’ cultural competence and job burnout. The authors reveal that the health care requirements for people from different cultural backgrounds vary. They further add that nurses must possess sufficient knowledge for caring for patients with different cultures in order to meet their needs. According to Asl and Fesharaki (2019), nurses who are not capable of recognizing and adopting different cultures tend to experience work stress. This article is credible because it cites information from various credible sources and each source is referenced. The articles will be useful in addressing the issue of nursing staff shortage since it helps identify one way of dealing with nurses’ work stress. Work stress is among the reasons why nurses quit their job.

Overall, ethical and cultural issues contribute to nurses leaving their jobs, which in turn results in nurse shortages. Therefore, to deal with the issue of nurse shortage, it is important to deal with ethical and cultural issues facing nurses.

References

Asl, M. A. S., Zargar, S. A., & Fesharaki, M. (2019). Evaluation of the relationship between cultural competence and job burnout of nurses. Journal of Advanced Pharmacy Education & Research, 9(S2):157- 162.

Karakachian, A., & Colbert, A. (2019). Nurses’ moral distress, burnout, and intentions to leave: an integrative review. Journal of Forensic Nursing, 15(3), 133-142. https://doi.org/10.1097/JFN.0000000000000249Palazoğlu, C. A., & Koç, Z. (2019). Ethical sensitivity, burnout, and job satisfaction in emergency nurses. Nursing ethics, 26(3), 809-822. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969733017720846