Measuring nurses' moral courage: an explorative study.

Background: The 21-item Nurses' Moral Courage Scale was developed and validated in 2018 in Finland with the purpose of measuring moral courage among nurses.

Objectives: The objective of this study was to make a Dutch translation of the Nurses' Moral Courage Scale to describe the level of nurses' self-assessed moral courage and associated socio-demographic factors in Flanders, Belgium.

Research Design: A forward-backward translation method was applied to translate the English Nurses' Moral Courage Scale to Dutch, and a pilot study was conducted to improve readability and understandability.