Ethics Education to Support Nurse Leaders in HealthCare

OSF Healthcare System

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Treatments: Behavioral: Educational intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06470984

2193504

Details and patient eligibility

About

Using an exploratory study design with an educational intervention, a pre/post evaluation of ethical confidence and competence will be completed for nursing leaders working in either acute care or post-acute care with primary purpose to increase ethical competency and confidence in decision making for nursing leaders in a clinical role.

Full description

The purpose of this project is to implement an ethics educational program that has been developed in collaboration with subject matter experts to support patient facing nursing leaders. The intervention is an ethics education pathway, which will be used for approximately 60-80 patient-facing nurse leaders who practice in either acute care or post-acute care over a 6-week period. One Pre and two post-assessment questionnaires will be distributed, which include the "Ethical Competence Support Questionnaire" © and the "Ethical Safety Questionnaire" ©. Permission for the instrument use was obtained from the author.

Enrollment: 80 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• employment within an in-patient or outpatient non-profit healthcare setting as a nursing leader.
• settings include acute-care units and post-acute care facilities

Exclusion criteria

• nurses working direct care 100% of their time without any formal leadership responsibilities

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Acute Care

Experimental group

Description:

Nursing leaders will participate voluntarily and will report their leadership role as acute care (hospital settings).

Treatment:

Behavioral: Educational intervention

Post-Acute Care

Experimental group

Description:

Nursing leaders will participate voluntarily and will report their leadership role as post-acute care (ambulatory settings)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Educational intervention