Ethical Decision Making Levels of Nursing Students

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Tarih

2018

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Professional Medical Publications

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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Özet

Objective: The present study was conducted to determine nursing students' levels of ethical decision-making. Methods: The sample of the descriptive study consisted of 240 nursing students. The data were collected using the Student Information Form and "Nursing Dilemma Test". Results: It was found that Principled Thinking (PT) mean score (48.38 +/- 7.97) of nursing students was above average while their Practical Consideration (PC) mean score (17.87 +/- 4.13) was close to average. It was also determined that the nursing students participated in the study were not familiar (17.75 +/- 2.77) with the dilemmas included in the Nursing Ethical Dilemma Test. Conclusion: The students paid attention to consider ethical principles when making decisions about ethical dilemmas; however, they are also affected by environmental factors as well. Sex and class level were found to be influential in the process of ethical decision making.

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Anahtar Kelimeler

Nursing, nursing students, Ethical decision making, Ethical dilemma, Ethics education

Kaynak

Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences

WoS Q Değeri

Q4

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Q3

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34

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3

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