Effects of Hospital Ethical Climate on Voice Behavior among Oncology Nurses’: Mediating Role of Courage

Year 2023, Volume: 10 Issue: 2, 179 - 185, 01.08.2023

Şenay Sarmasoğlu Kılıkçıer , Gül Hatice Tarakçıoğlu Çelik , Şenay Gül , Eda Karaismailoğlu

https://doi.org/10.31125/hunhemsire.1172125

Abstract

Aim: Ethical climate is an important organizational characteristic that affects employees' thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors. The voice of the nurses, one of the fundamental employees of the hospitals, is very valuable both in terms of the organizations they work in and the safety of their patients. However, the relationship between hospital ethical climate and voice behavior remains unclear. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of the ethical climate on oncology nurses’ voice behaviors, considering courage as a mediator.
Material and Methods: This study was designed as a predictive cross-sectional study. The sample of this study consisted of 71 registered nurses who were employed as staff nurses in inpatient care services in Hacettepe University Oncology Hospital between October and December 2018.
Results: There is a positive and significant relation between the hospital’s ethical climate and oncology nurses’ voice behaviors, and that courage has a positive partial mediating effect.
Conclusion: Since the relationship between a hospital’s ethical climate and nurses’ voice behavior contains many different variables, courage can be deemed a mediator in this relationship, but courage is not may directly be effective on its own.

Keywords

Courage, ethical climate, mediating, oncology nurse, voice behavior

Hastane Etik İkliminin Onkoloji Hemşirelerinin Seslilik Davranışlarına Etkisi: Cesaretin Aracılık Rolü

Abstract

Amaç: Etik iklim, çalışanların düşünce, tutum ve davranışlarını etkileyen önemli bir örgütsel özelliktir. Hastanelerin asli çalışanlarından biri olan hemşirelerin sesi hem çalıştıkları kurumlar hem de hastalarının güvenliği açısından çok değerlidir. Ancak, hastane etik iklimi ile seslilik davranışı arasındaki ilişki belirsizliğini korumaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı cesareti bir aracı olarak ele alarak etik iklimin onkoloji hemşirelerinin seslilik davranışları üzerindeki etkilerini araştırmaktır.
Gereç ve Yöntem: Bu araştırma, kestirimsel kesitsel bir çalışma olarak tasarlanmıştır. Bu çalışmanın örneklemini Ekim-Aralık 2018 tarihleri arasında Hacettepe Üniversitesi Onkoloji Hastanesi’nin yatan hasta kliniklerinde hemşire olarak istihdam edilen 71 hemşire oluşturmuştur.
Bulgular: Hastanenin etik iklimi ile onkoloji hemşirelerinin seslilik davranışları arasında pozitif ve anlamlı bir ilişki vardır ve bu ilişkide cesaretin pozitif kısmi aracılık etkisi vardır.
Sonuç: Bir hastanenin etik iklimi ile hemşirelerin seslilik davranışı arasındaki ilişki birçok farklı değişkeni içerdiğinden, cesaret bu ilişkide aracı olarak kabul edilebilir ancak tek başına doğrudan etkili olmayabilir.

Keywords

Aracı rol, cesaret, etik iklim, onkoloji hemşiresi, seslilik davranışı

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