Results
Ethical problems encountered by NMs
The frequency and difficulty of ethical problems in NMs’
work were also investigated in this study and reported in
detail in a separate article [00]. Sum scores were re-
ported of groups of ethical problems related to patients
(mean: frequency 0.00, difficulty 0.00), nursing staff
(mean: frequency 0.00, difficulty 0.00), other professional
groups (mean: frequency 0.00, difficulty 0.00), the organ-
isation (mean: frequency 0.00, difficulty 0.00) and the
NMs themselves (mean: frequency 0.00, difficulty 0.00).
The most often encountered problems were related to
nursing staff and the organisation. The organisation-
related ethical problems were most difficult [00]. In this
study, the groups of ethical problems are considered as
background factors.