No. | Ethical issues | Mean importance scorea | Mean importance rating | Mean stress scoreb | Mean stress rating |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | Protecting patients' rights | 3.82 | 1 | 1.73 | 11 |
2. | Care of patients' quality of life | 3.79 | 2 | 1.84 | 10 |
3. | Providing care with possible risks to own health and safety | 3.77 | 3 | 2.37 | 5c |
4. | Respecting informed consent by patients to treatment | 3.57 | 4 | 1.94 | 9 |
5. | Use of physical or chemical restraints on patients | 2.78 | 7 | 2.07 | 8 |
6. | Determining when death occurs | 2.35 | 9 | 2.19 | 7 |
7. | Prolonging dying process without appropriate reason | 2.04 | 11 | 2.37 | 5c |
8. | Hiding information regarding patients' actual condition from patients or family | 2.28 | 10 | 2.43 | 4 |
9. | Working with unethical or incompetent colleague | 2.44 | 8 | 3.10 | 1 |
10. | Problems of staffing that limit patients' access to nursing care | 3.18 | 5 | 2.87 | 2 |
11. | Problems of medical resource management that limit patients' access to nursing care | 3.13 | 6 | 2.77 | 3 |