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Table 5 The relationship between the ethical climate and nurses/midwives problems occurring in their work

From: Hospital ethical climate survey - selected psychometric properties of the scale and results among polish nurses and midwives

Main problems occurring in nurses’ and midwives’ work #

HECS-Pol

Patients’ conditions

-0.084 *

 

Patients’ expectations

-0.066

 

Patients’ families expectations

-0.019

 

Lack of time for direct face-to face-care

-0.170 ***

 

Lack of equipment and resources for high quality of healthcare

-0.216 ***

 

Relationships in the nursing team

-0.397 ***

 

Relationships in the therapeutic team,

with other professionals

-0.424 ***

 

Relations with hospital managers

-0.400 ***

 

Limitations in own professional competences

-0.182 ***

 

Moral dilemmas in relation to patient care

-0.142 **

 

Low salary

-0.170 **

 

Low prestige of nurse/midwives work

-0.220 ***

 

Physical load

-0.091 *

 

Mental load

-0.099 *

 

Medical/nursing documentation requirements

-0.058

 

Risk of making a mistake

-0.080

 

Low professional competences of others

medical professionals

-0.217 **

 
  1. #definitely yes – 5; definitely no -1; Spearman’s rho; * <0.05; ** <0.01; ***<0.001