Abstract

Introduction: Nowadays, nurses require moral courage to face the ethical problems. Since ‎facing the challenges may result in adverse consequences, such as quitting the job, which ‎reduce the quality of healthcare services provided to patients. Therefore, drawing the ‎attention to the quality of work life is one of the important factors in maintaining and ‎attracting employees; whereas, the promotion of quality of work life is considered as an ‎important factor to ensure the stability of the health system.‎ Methods: This is a descriptive-analytical study of correlation type. The research ‎community was all nurses in Bam hospitals in 2018; they were 205 people selected by ‎census sampling method. In the present study, the Professional Moral Courage Scale by ‎Sekerka (2007), and Quality of Nursing Work Life Survey by Brooks and Anderson (2005) ‎were used. Data were analyzed using SPSS23 and through Pearson correlation coefficient ‎and independent t-test.‎ Findings: 88.6% of the participants were female and 80.1% were married. The study results ‎showed there was no relationship between education level and moral courage, and quality of ‎work life (p>0.05). There was no relationship between job titles (p>0.05), employment ‎status (p>0.05) and moral courage, and quality of work life. The relationship between ‎quality of work life and workplace was significant (p<0.05). Given the statistical results, ‎there was no significant relationship between the moral courage and the quality of work life.‎ Conclusion: Moral courage and quality of work life among nurses in Bam are not at a ‎desirable level; therefore, careful planning by healthcare management is necessary to ‎promote them so that we can improve nurses’ conditions and the quality of healthcare ‎provided to patients‎‎‎‎.