Moral resilience, hospital ethical climate, moral courage, and moral sensitivity among intensive care unit nurses: a structural equation model

Objective To investigate the association between intensive care unit nurses' moral resilience and the hospital ethical climate, moral courage, and moral sensitivity, and to determine whether moral courage and moral sensitivity mediate the relationship between ethical climate and moral resilience. Methods A descriptive, cross-sectional study. Overall, 363 intensive care unit nurses from eight tertiary hospitals in Southwest China were recruited using convenience sampling. The Moral Resilience Sca