Tehran University of Medical Sciences Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine 2008-0387 12 0 2019 08 04 The relationship between moral distress in nurses and ethical climate in selected hospitals of the Iranian social security organization 405 405 EN Mina Bayat MSc Student, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. Mohsen Shahriyari Associate Professor, Nursing & Midwifery Care Research Centre, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. Mahrokh Keshvari Assistant Professor, Nursing & Midwifery Care Research Centre, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. 2018 05 18 2019 08 04 The present study was conducted to determine the relation between nurses’ moral distress and the ethical climate in selected hospitals of the Iranian Social Security Organization (ISSO). This descriptive-analytical correlational study was conducted in 6 hospitals under the coverage of the Iranian Social Security Organization in 2016. Three hundred nurses were selected by convenience sampling method. Data were gathered using Corley’s Standard Moral Distress and Olson’s Hospital Ethical Climate Scales. Data were analyzed using SPSS software version 19. The mean score of the nurses’ moral distress was 1.94 ± 0.66, which is considered moderate. The mean score of ethical climate was 88.97, indicating desirable ethical climate in these hospitals. The frequency score of moral distress had a unilateral reverse correlation with the total score of ethical climate as well as its dimensions, including colleagues, patients, hospitals and physicians. The score of the intensity of nurses’ moral distress also had a unilateral reverse correlation with the total score of ethical climate and the scores of the hospital and physicians dimensions. These results emphasized the importance of creating a positive ethical climate to decrease moral distress as well as the need for professional interventions to increase support in moral issues. https://jmehm.tums.ac.ir/index.php/jmehm/article/view/405 https://jmehm.tums.ac.ir/index.php/jmehm/article/download/405/308