Relationship between nurses' levels of compassion and levels of ethical attitude in nursing care

The aim of current research is to examine the relationship between the nurse's compassion level and ethical attitudes in nursing care. The population of current research consists of 320 nurses who worked in Duzce University Health Appilacation and Research Center in November 21st to Semptember 22nd, and also consists of 1072 nurses who worked in Sakarya Education and Research Hospital. Sampling was not conducted since it was aimed to reach to the overall population. Data was collected by using individual information form, where sociodemographic information is written on, "Compassion Scale" and, "Ethical Attitude Scale in Nursing Care". In analysis of data, Kruskal Wallis Test, Shapiro-Wilk, Mann Whitney U Test, Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test, Dunn Test, Spearman's rho Correlation Coefficent Test and SPSS 23 were used. Age mean of participants is 31,22±6,54, total mean of working year of them is 8,44±6,87, 81,9 % of them was women, 55,4 % of them was single and, 64,3% of them had undergraduate degree. Mean of compassion level of nurses was calculated as 4,13±0,34 and mean of ethical attitude in nursing care of nurses was calculated as 54,45±14,95. It was found that there is a negative significant weak correlation between compassion level of nurses and ethical attitude in nursing care (r=0,283; p<0,05). Giving place concepts such as compassion, compassionate care, ethic and ethical attitude in nursing education, increasing awaraness about compassionate care practice, identification of the factors that can inhibit compassionate care and taking necessary steps about this issue is suggested. Keywords: Ethics, Ethical attitude, Nursing, Compassion, Compassionate care.