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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Psychology for Clinical Settings
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1512533
Career calling, ethical sensitivity and decision-making ability in intensive care nurses:A mediating effect model
Provisionally accepted- 1 Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- 2 Union Hospital, Huanzhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hebei Province, China
Aims: To investigate the simultaneous effects of ethical sensitivity and career calling on intensive care nurses' decision-making ability.Methods: 361 intesnisve care nurses in Hubei Province were selected as survey subjects. The survey employed a general information questionnaire, a nurse career calling scale, a Chinese version of the nursing ethics decision-making ability questionnaire, and an ethics sensitivity questionnaire. A structural equation model was constructed using the AMOS software.The ethical decision-making ability of intensive care nurses earned a score of (267.62 ± 28.15). Ethical sensitivity (r=0.584, P<0.001) and career calling (r=0.566, P<0.001) positively correlated with ethical decision-making ability in nursing. Career calling partially mediates between ethical sensitivity and nursing ethical decision-making ability, with a mediation effect of 0.246.Intensive care nurses exhibited moderate ethical decision-making ability and require further improvement. Career calling partly mediates between moral sensitiv ity and nursing ethical decision-making ability. Enhancing ethical sensitivity and career calling can help improve ethical decision-making ability among intensive care nurses.
Keywords: Intensive Care, ethical sensitivity, Career calling, Nurses, ethicai decison-making
Received: 16 Oct 2024; Accepted: 07 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Sun, Wang, Mi and Wu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
huimin Sun, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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