Participant Information Form, Nursing Ethical Dilemma Test and Moral Distress Scale will be applied to the intervention group to be included in the study before the intervention. Then, the motivational interview program will be implemented in 5 sessions in total, one session per week. At the end of the intervention program, nurses will be asked to fill out the Nursing Ethical Dilemma Test and the Moral Distress Scale.

No intervention will be applied to the control group to be included in the study. Participants will be asked to fill out the Participant Information Form, Ethical Dilemma Test in Nursing, and Moral Distress Scale forms before and after starting the intervention simultaneously with the intervention group. will be implemented. Then, the motivational interview program will be implemented in 5 sessions in total, one session per week. At the end of the intervention program, nurses will be asked to fill out the Nursing Ethical Dilemma Test and the Moral Distress Scale.

Motivational interviewing is a directive and client-centered approach used to elicit behavioral change by helping the client explore and resolve ambivalence. Motivational interviewing is a specific method of helping individuals understand their problems and take action for change. In this study, the motivational interview program created in line with the literature (Li et al, 2023; Miller and Rollnick, 2013; Çelik Örücü, 2020) consists of 5 sessions in total, one session per week. There are specific goals and objectives for each session.

To reveal the moral problems frequently encountered in patient care; Drawing on her experiences with ethical problems in nursing practice, she developed six dilemmas specific to nursing practice. Principled Thinking demonstrates the importance given to considering moral principles when making moral decisions in nursing. Practical thinking, on the other hand, measures the importance that nurses give to environmental factors such as the number of patients, the number of available resources, institutional policies, the extent to which nurses perceive the support of the management, and physician control, in making decisions regarding ethical issues. The ID and PD scores obtained from each dilemma are added separately to determine the participant's total ID and PD scores. The lowest ID score that can be reached in the test is 18 and the highest ID score is 66. The lowest PD score that can be achieved is 6 and the highest PD score is 36.

Description: It was developed to evaluate the frequency and intensity of moral distress experienced by nurses working in intensive careThe scale consists of 21 items and consists of 2 dimensions: frequency (0-4) and intensity (0-4). The total score to be obtained from the scale is between 0-336, and an increase in the score indicates an increase in the level of moral distress.