Hospital Ethical Climate and Its Influence on Clinical Nurses’ Perception on Their Organizational Citizenship Performance

Abstract

Healthcare development mainly depends on nurses’ activities, since nurses often take much time in contacting patients during clinical activities. Their awareness of the hospital’s moral climate disturbs nurses’ attitudes and associated ethical concerns. Hospital ethical climates have become a crucial working area element for nurses to prepare and apply ethical judgments. The ethical climate is one feature of an institution that denotes the collective insights of morally correct activities and techniques of handling ethically varied conduct. Better consciousness of the difficulty of ethical problems in the health facility situation has powered attention to nursing ethics. Yet, there is insufficient data on the connection between nurses’ awareness of the ethical climate worldwide. Hospital ethical climate has been studied in several industrial countries for decades but has only been investigated in some developing countries in the past two decades. In general, the chapter explained the perception of nurses and correlation between hospital ethical climate and job satisfaction, and dimensions of job design.