NCT06470984

Ethics Education to Support Nurse Leaders in HealthCare

Ethics Education Supporting Acute and Post-Acute Nurse Leaders - 2nd Cohort

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (estimated)
• Sponsor: OSF Healthcare System · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Using an exploratory study design with an educational intervention, a pre/post evaluation of ethical confidence and competence will be completed for nursing leaders working in either acute care or post-acute care with primary purpose to increase ethical competency and confidence in decision making for nursing leaders in a clinical role.

Detailed description

The purpose of this project is to implement an ethics educational program that has been developed in collaboration with subject matter experts to support patient facing nursing leaders. The intervention is an ethics education pathway, which will be used for approximately 60-80 patient-facing nurse leaders who practice in either acute care or post-acute care over a 6-week period. One Pre and two post-assessment questionnaires will be distributed, which include the "Ethical Competence Support Questionnaire" © and the "Ethical Safety Questionnaire" ©. Permission for the instrument use was obtained from the author.

Conditions

• Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Educational intervention	Professional development program provided online to small groups of professional nurse leaders via an educational platform over a 6-week period.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-07-02
• Primary completion: 2025-12-31
• Completion: 2025-12-31
• First posted: 2024-06-24
• Last updated: 2025-05-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States