Use and impact of the ANA Code: a scoping review.

Adherence to professional ethics in nursing is fundamental for high-quality ethical care. However, analysis of the use and impact of nurses' codes of ethics as a part of professional ethics is limited. To fill this gap in knowledge, the aim of our review was to describe the use and impact of the Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements published by the American Nurses Association as an example of one of the earliest and most extensive codes of ethics for nurses with their interpretative statements and constituting a strong basis for the International Council of Nurses' Code of Ethics for Nurses.

Nurses' self-assessed moral courage and related socio-demographic factors.

Background: Nurses need moral courage to ensure ethically good care. Moral courage is an individual characteristic and therefore it is relevant to examine its association with nurses' socio-demographic factors.

Objective: To describe nurses' self-assessed level of moral courage and its association with their socio-demographic factors.

Validation of the Dutch-language version of Nurses' Moral Courage Scale.

Background: Moral courage as a part of nurses' moral competence has gained increasing interest as a means to strengthen nurses acting on their moral decisions and offering alleviation to their moral distress. To measure and assess nurses' moral courage, the development of culturally and internationally validated instruments is needed.

Objective: The objective of this study was to validate the Dutch-language version of the four-component Nurses' Moral Courage Scale originally developed and validated in Finnish data.

Moral courage in nursing - An integrative literature review.

Moral courage and understanding of its meaning are essential when nurses face ethical conflicts in their practice. This integrative review aimed to explore moral courage in nursing and possible associated individual and organizational factors. A database search in January 2020 identified 1308 scientific articles of which 25 were selected for the review.

Analysis of graduating nursing students' moral courage in six European countries.

Background: Moral courage is defined as courage to act according to one's own ethical values and principles even at the risk of negative consequences for the individual. In a complex nursing practice, ethical considerations are integral. Moral courage is needed throughout nurses' career.

Care situations demanding moral courage: Content analysis of nurses' experiences.

Background: Nurses encounter complex ethical dilemmas in everyday nursing care. It is important for nurses to have moral courage to act in these situations which threaten patients' safety or their good care. However, there is lack of research of moral courage.

Postdoctoral nursing researcher career: A scoping review of required competences.

Aim: The aim of this review was to identify and summarize the required competences of nursing PhD students and postdoctoral researchers to pursue a successful researcher career and to compare these competences with the existing competence frameworks.

Design: Scoping review.

Methods: PubMed, CINAHL, SocIndex, PsycInfo, Eric, EMBASE, Academic Search Premier and Scopus databases were searched from January 1990-December 2018.

Development and validation of Nurses' Moral Courage Scale.

Background: Moral courage is required at all levels of nursing. However, there is a need for development of instruments to measure nurses' moral courage.

Objectives: The objective of this study is to develop a scale to measure nurses' self-assessed moral courage, to evaluate the scale's psychometric properties, and to briefly describe the current level of nurses' self-assessed moral courage and associated socio-demographic factors.

Ethical climate in nursing environment: A scoping review.

Background:: In the past two decades, interest in the concept of ethical climate and in its research has increased in healthcare. Ethical climate is viewed as a type of organizational work climate, and defined as the shared perception of ethically correct behavior, and how ethical issues should be handled in the organization. Ethical climate as an important element of nursing environment has been the focus of several studies.

Development of Nurses' Professional Competence Early in Their Career: A Longitudinal Study.

Background: Research on newly graduated nurses' competence development and associated factors is relatively scarce.

Method: Data for this longitudinal, descriptive, correlation study were collected during 2012-2014 from 318 Finnish nurses to explore their competence development during the first 3 years after graduation and to estimate the extent to which given work-related factors predicted change in competence. Data were analyzed using NCSS 10 statistical software.

Nurse Competence Scale: a systematic and psychometric review.

Aim: The aim of this study was to report a systematic and psychometric review.

Background: The Nurse Competence Scale is currently the most widely used generic instrument to measure Registered Nurses' competence in different phases of their careers. Based on a decade of research, this review provides a summary of the existing evidence.

Newly graduated nurses' empowerment regarding professional competence and other work-related factors.

Background: Although both nurse empowerment and competence are fundamental concepts of describing newly graduated nurses' professional development and job satisfaction, only few studies exist on the relationship between these concepts. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine how newly graduated nurses assess their empowerment and to clarify professional competence compared to other work-related factors.

Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional and correlational design was applied.

Moral courage in nursing: A concept analysis.

Background: Nursing as an ethical practice requires courage to be moral, taking tough stands for what is right, and living by one's moral values. Nurses need moral courage in all areas and at all levels of nursing. Along with new interest in virtue ethics in healthcare, interest in moral courage as a virtue and a valued element of human morality has increased.

Newly graduated nurses' occupational commitment and its associations with professional competence and work-related factors.

Aims And Objectives: To explore newly graduated nurses' occupational commitment and its associations with their self-assessed professional competence and other work-related factors.

Background: As a factor affecting nurse turnover, newly graduated nurses' occupational commitment and its associations with work-related factors needs exploring to retain adequate workforce. Nurses' commitment has mainly been studied as organisational commitment, but newly graduated nurses' occupational commitment and its association with work-related factors needs further studying.

Newly Graduated Nurses' Competence and Individual and Organizational Factors: A Multivariate Analysis.

Objective: To study the relationships between newly graduated nurses' (NGNs') perceptions of their professional competence, and individual and organizational work-related factors.

Methods: A multivariate, quantitative, descriptive, correlation design was applied. Data collection took place in November 2012 with a national convenience sample of 318 NGNs representing all main healthcare settings in Finland.

Practice environment and its association with professional competence and work-related factors: perception of newly graduated nurses.

Aim: To explore newly graduated nurses' (NGN) perception of their practice environment and its association with their self-assessed competence, turnover intentions and job satisfaction as work-related factors.

Background: The impact of practice environment on nurses' work is important. Positive practice environments are associated with positive organisational, nurse and patient outcomes.

Ethical climate and nurse competence - newly graduated nurses' perceptions.

Background: Nursing practice takes place in a social framework, in which environmental elements and interpersonal relations interact. Ethical climate of the work unit is an important element affecting nurses' professional and ethical practice. Nevertheless, whatever the environmental circumstances, nurses are expected to be professionally competent providing high-quality care ethically and clinically.

Nurse competence between three generational nurse cohorts: A cross-sectional study.

Research indicates significant differences between nurse cohorts in many work-related factors. This study compared nurse competence between three generational cohorts comprising the current nursing workforce. The Nurse Competence Scale was used to collect data for this cross-sectional study from 2052 nurses in a university hospital in Finland.

Do educational outcomes correspond with the requirements of nursing practice: educators' and managers' assessments of novice nurses' professional competence.

Objective: This study evaluated weather educational outcomes of nurse education meet the requirements of nursing practice by exploring the correspondence between nurse educators' and nurse managers' assessments of novice nurses' professional competence. The purpose was to find competence areas contributing to the acknowledged practice-theory gap.

Design: A cross-sectional, comparative design using the Nurse Competence Scale was applied.

A mixed-method systematic review: support for ethical competence of nurses.

Aim: The aim was to appraise and synthesize evidence of empirical studies of how nurses' ethical competence can be supported.

Background: Ethical competence is an essential element of nursing practice. Nurses increasingly need support in competence when carrying out their responsibilities towards their patients.

Professional competence of practising nurses.

Aims And Objectives: To compare nurse competence in terms of its quality and frequency of action in medical, surgical, paediatric/obstetric/gynaecological and psychiatric clinical fields.

Background: One challenge of current health care is to target practising nurses' competencies to optimal use. Therefore, a systematic assessment of nurse competence is justified.

Nurse educators and professional ethics--ethical principles and their implementation from nurse educators' perspectives.

This study describes nurse educators' knowledge of the ethical principles of professional codes of ethics and educators' assessment of the implementation of principles of fairness and human respect. Data for this study was collected from nurse educators in Finland. The data was analyzed by SPSS (15.

Comparison of nurse educators' and nursing students' descriptions of teaching codes of ethics.

This study analysed teaching of nurses' codes of ethics in basic nursing education in Finland. A total of 183 educators and 214 students responded to a structured questionnaire. The data was analysed by SPSS.

Nurse educators' teaching of codes of ethics.

Although codes of ethics are thought to be an important element of nursing ethics curriculum research focusing on nurses' codes is scarce and negligible in the area of education. This study explores Finnish nurse educators' teaching of codes of ethics. A total of 183 nurse educators from polytechnics providing basic nursing education in Finland answered a structured questionnaire with one open-ended question.