To explore the relationship between nursing professional values and ethical climate and nurses’ professional quality of life.
The present study is a descriptive, cross-sectional work in which 400 nurses from various wards of hospitals in the south-east of Iran were studied. Data were collected using a questionnaire consisting of four sections: demographics, Nurses’ Professional Values Scale-Revised (NPVS-R), the Hospital Ethical Climate Survey (HECS), and the Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQOL).
The total mean scores for professional values were 105.29 ± 15.60. The total mean score for the ethical climate was 100.09 ± 17.11. The mean scores for the indexes of compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress were 45.29 ± 8.93, 34.38 ± 6.84, and 32.15 ± 7.02 respectively. The relationships between professional values and the indexes of compassion satisfaction ( r = 0.56), burnout ( r = 0.26), and secondary traumatic stress ( r = 0.18) were found to be positive and significant ( P < 0.001). Also, the relationships between ethical climate and the items of compassion satisfaction ( r = 0.60, P < 0.001), burnout ( r = 0.15, P = 0.002) were found to be positive and significant.