Development and Validation of a Moral Distress Scale for Nursing Students.

Background And Purpose: This study aimed to develop and validate a scale to measure the frequency and the intensity of the moral distress experienced by nursing students.

Method: Methodological study in which a guideline with eight steps: (a) to determine what to measure, (b) to produce items, (c) format to measure, (d) review by experts, (e) validation of items, (f) sample, (g) assessment (h) scale length was used to develop and validate a scale. The sample was composed of 499 undergraduate nursing students from three Brazilian universities.

Nursing students facing moral distress: strategies of resistance.

Objective: To understand the resistance strategies adopted by undergraduate students in nursing, faced with situations of moral distress (MD).

Method: Qualitative research, developed in three universities in the south of Brazil, two federal and one private, with 21 undergraduate students in nursing from December 2015 to February 2016; the data was submitted to the discursive textual analysis and Foucauldian theoretical reference.

Results: Students resisting demonstrate a sense of self-preservation and moral empowerment.