A Study of How Moral Courage and Moral Sensitivity Correlate with Safe Care in Special Care Nursing

Table 2

Means and standard deviations of the participants’ scores for the domains of moral sensitivity, moral courage, and safe care.

variable		Minimum	Maximum	Mean	SD
Moral sensitivity	Respect for patient autonomy	9.00	12.00	10.99	1.07
	Familiarity with communication skills	16.00	20.00	19.32	0.81
	Professional knowledge	5.00	8.00	7.24	0.85
	Experience of ethical conflicts	9.00	12.00	10.98	0.64
	Use of ethical concepts	15.00	20.00	18.64	1.06
	Honesty and benevolence	23.00	28.00	26.21	1.10
Moral courage	Moral agency	14.00	21.00	18.60	1.89
	Multiple values	12.00	21.00	18.39	2.44
	Endurance of threat	17.00	21.00	20.14	0.73
	Going beyond compliance	14.00	21.00	19.30	1.63
	Moral goals	17.00	25.00	21.35	1.71
Safe care	Assessment of nursing skills	141.00	168.00	154.77	6.47
	Evaluation of psychological safety	18.00	25.00	22.56	1.88
	Evaluation of physical safety	75.00	97.00	88.62	5.75
	Evaluation of teamwork skills	41.00	63.00	55.83	4.91