en <span style=font-size:11pt><span style=text-justify:inter-ideograph><span style=line-height:normal><span style=font-family:Calibri,sans-serif><span style=color:#595959><b><span style=font-size:10.0pt><span cambria= style=font-family:><span style=color:#4472c4>Aims:</span></span></span></b><b> </b><span style=font-size:10.0pt><span cambria= style=font-family:><span style=color:black>The moral sensitivity of nurses is related to patient care. The more sensitive nurse in facing ethical challenges in care causes the better patient care he/she provides.</span></span></span> <span style=font-size:10.0pt><span cambria= style=font-family:><span style=color:black>Providing better ethical care leads to increased patient satisfaction and reduced societal burden. We investigated the relationship between nurses’ moral sensitivity and patient</span></span></span><span style=font-size:10.0pt><span cambria= style=font-family:><span style=color:black> satisfaction in the Iraqi emergency wards.</span></span></span><b><span style=font-size:10.0pt><span cambria= style=font-family:><span style=color:black></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style=font-size:11pt><span style=text-justify:inter-ideograph><span style=line-height:normal><span style=font-family:Calibri,sans-serif><span style=color:#595959><b><span style=font-size:10.0pt><span cambria= style=font-family:><span style=color:#4472c4>Instrument & Methods:</span></span></span></b><span style=font-size:10.0pt><span cambria= style=font-family:><span style=color:black> This cross-sectional study was done on</span></span></span><span style=font-size:10.0pt><span cambria= style=font-family:><span style=color:black> nurses (200) and patients (400) in </span></span></span><span style=font-size:10.0pt><span cambria= style=font-family:><span style=color:black>Iraqi emergency wards</span></span></span><span style=font-size:10.0pt><span cambria= style=font-family:><span style=color:black>. Three </span></span></span><span style=font-size:10.0pt><span cambria= style=font-family:><span style=color:black>questionnaires were used, including demographic, </span></span></span><span style=font-size:10.0pt><span cambria= style=font-family:><span style=color:black>Newcastle Satisfaction, and</span></span></span><span style=font-size:10.0pt><span cambria= style=font-family:><span style=color:black> Moral Sensitivity.</span></span></span><span style=font-size:10.0pt><span cambria= style=font-family:><span style=color:black> Data were analyzed by SPSS version 20.</span></span></span><b><span style=font-size:10.0pt><span cambria= style=font-family:><span style=color:black></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style=font-size:11pt><span style=text-justify:inter-ideograph><span style=line-height:normal><span style=font-family:Calibri,sans-serif><span style=color:#595959><b><span style=font-size:10.0pt><span cambria= style=font-family:><span style=color:#4472c4>Findings:</span></span></span></b><span style=font-size:10.0pt><span cambria= style=font-family:><span style=color:black> There was a positive relationship between patient satisfaction and nurses’ moral sensitivity (r=0.662; p=0.001).</span></span></span><i><span style=font-size:10.0pt><span cambria= style=font-family:><span style=color:black></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style=font-size:11pt><span style=text-justify:inter-ideograph><span style=line-height:normal><span style=font-family:Calibri,sans-serif><span style=color:#595959><b><span style=font-size:10.0pt><span cambria= style=font-family:><span style=color:#4472c4>Conclusion:</span></span></span></b><b> </b><span style=font-size:10.0pt><span cambria= style=font-family:><span style=color:black>Nurses often face difficult situations when caring for patients in the emergency department. To deal with these situations and make ethical decisions, nurses must have an acceptable level of ethical sensitivity. When nurses are ethically sensitive to patient care, patients realize this, and satisfaction with receiving nursing care increases.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br> Ethics,Morals,Patient Satisfaction,Nurses, 373 379 http://hehp.modares.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-66224-1&slc_lang=en&sid=4 A. Aljabouri 1003194753284600301772 1003194753284600301772 No Department of Nursing Education, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran M. Khoobi 1003194753284600301773 0000000190389600 Yes Department of Nursing Education, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran F. Ahmadi 1003194753284600301774 0000000219617735 No Department of Nursing Education, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran A. Rasekhi 1003194753284600301775 1003194753284600301775 No Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran