Evaluation of School of health students' ethics position in Turkey

Şen, Emine; Dal, Nursel Alp; Üstün, Çağatay; Okursoy, Algın

doi:10.1177/0969733015594666

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“…These findings correspond to similar findings in other studies showing that nursing students differ in terms of relativism. 61 Similarly, the mean relativism scores of nursing students in terms of year of study differ significantly. This finding corresponds to similar findings in other studies showing that nursing students differ in terms of year of study on a measure of relativism.…”

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“…This finding corresponds to similar findings in other studies showing that nursing students differ in terms of year of study on a measure of relativism. 61 Smith 53 observed that the ethical ideology of nursing students change from being idealistic at the beginning of their programme to a loss of idealism as they become more exposed to the reality of clinical practice in nursing. Such a development, Smith 53 concluded, can have negative consequences for caring in nursing.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Unlike studies in other social and health science disciplines, 38 studies in nursing education seldom extend their classification of nursing students’ ethical ideology according to Forsyth’s 43 taxonomy. 52,61 In this current study, a classification of nursing students’ ethical ideologies is provided. Most students were classified as ‘situationists’ on a measure of ethical ideology and were more idealistic than relativistic.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Professional values and ethical ideology: Perceptions of nursing students

Arries

2019

Nurs Ethics

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Background: Moral philosophical positions and professional values have been shown to influence nurses’ practice behaviours. Understanding nursing students’ professional values and ethical ideologies, therefore, is important as they may help inform evidence-informed curriculum decisions and education strategies to develop students’ professional reflective competencies. However, there is a dearth in current empirical data on Canadian nursing students’ perceptions of professional values and ethical positions. Objectives: This study’s purpose was to examine undergraduate nursing student’s perceptions of professional values and ethical ideology and explore relationships in data and selected participant demographic variables. Research design, participants and context: A descriptive cross-sectional research design was conducted with a convenience sample of undergraduate nursing students recruited from a university in Canada. An online encrypted survey consisting of two validated instruments was administered to participants who met study eligibility criteria. Descriptive and inferential statistics were employed to analyse the data and classify nursing students’ ethical ideologies into four categories based on mean scores for idealism and relativism. Ethical considerations: This study received ethical approval from the institutional Behavioural Research Ethics Board and was executed in-line with ethical principles for research involving humans. Findings: Nursing students scored high on professional values and ethical idealism and differed significantly on a measure of ethical relativism in terms of age and year of study. Professional values were significantly associated with ethical idealism. Based on mean scores for idealism and relativism, most nursing students in the study were classified as situationists. Discussion and conclusion: Findings suggest that faculty pay attention to influences of moral philosophical positions in facilitating nursing students’ professional values development. Implications for future research and curriculum are highlighted to strengthen nursing students’ professional values.

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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Professional values and ethical ideology: Perceptions of nursing students

Arries

2019

Nurs Ethics

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“…Moral orientation using Forsyth’s EPQ was recently studied with two groups of Turkish health professionals, midwives and students of disaster management. 13 Although the mean scores for the subscale on idealism did not differ between the two fields of study, the mean scores significantly differed between the years of study. However, the mean scores for the subscale on relativism did not differ in terms of the years and fields of study.…”

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The relationship amongst ethical position, religiosity and self-identified culture in student nurses

2018

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Background/purpose: Research from other disciplines demonstrates that ethical position, idealism, or relativism predicts ethical decision-making. Individuals from diverse cultures ascribe to various religious beliefs and studies have found that religiosity and culture affect ethical decision-making. Moreover, little literature exists regarding undergraduate nursing students’ ethical position; no studies have been conducted in the United States on students’ ethical position, their self-identified culture, and intrinsic religiosity despite an increase in the diversity of nursing students across the United States. Participants and Research Context Objectives: The study’s two aims were to determine the relationship of self-identified culture, religiosity, and ethics position of undergraduate nursing student and whether students’ level of education and past ethics courses taken related to idealism. Two hundred and twelve volunteer undergraduate students participated. Research design: A descriptive cross-sectional study was designed for participants who completed the Ethical Position Questionnaire, The intrinsic subscale of the Religious Orientation Scale, and a Demographic, Cultural, Ethnicity Form. To test the five hypotheses, analyses included t-tests, correlations, and ANOVA. Ethical Considerations: The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board at Adelphi University. Results: Idealism and intrinsic religiosity were significantly related. Differences were observed for intrinsic religiosity and idealism for cultural identity and cultural dimensions such as parents’ place of birth, and if participants were US born. Students’ level of education or participation in past courses on ethics did not influence idealism. Conclusions: The study’s findings were similar to most of the research from other disciplines on culture, ethics position, and religiosity. Generic courses on ethics taken prior to clinical work may not assist nursing students in integrating principles into complex ethical dilemmas. Self-identified culture, religion, and intrinsic religiosity related to ethics position; completing ethics courses and level of education, juniors compared with seniors, did not influence idealism. Faculty should consider integrating students’ culture, religious orientation, and ethics position into teaching ethics for all levels of nursing education.

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“…19 While the relationship between ethics and law is well established, the recognition of reproductive rights 20 and more recently human rights in childbirth, 21,22 evidence of how a human rights framework for midwifery care 7 is incorporated within midwifery education is unknown since the discussion of the provision of ethics education for midwives and student midwives is limited in the literature. 23,24 Others have recently attempted to address this by developing a model to increase ethical competence for education and practice. 25…”

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Midwifery students’ reactions to ethical dilemmas encountered in outpatient clinics

Apay¹,

Gürol²,

Gür

et al. 2020

Nurs Ethics

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Background: Midwives are required to make ethical decisions with the support of respective codes of professional ethics which provide a framework for decision making in clinical practice. While each midwife should be ethically aware and sensitive to the ever-changing issues within reproduction, few empirical studies have examined the views of student midwives in relation to reproductive ethical dilemmas. Objective: The aim of this study was to explore midwifery students’ reactions to a number of ethical dilemmas relating to women’s experiences of reproductive decision making. Design: A series of focus groups were conducted with midwifery students who were asked to discuss five culturally significant scenarios including issues of knowledge acquisition regarding methods of family planning, removal or insertion of an intrauterine device, and abortion. Setting: A University in Turkey was the setting for this study. Participants: Purposeful sampling was adopted which resulted in five focus groups with a total of 57 midwifery students. Ethical considerations: The study was reviewed and granted formal ethical approval by an ethical committee at the Faculty of Health Science in Atatürk University. The head of the Faculty of Health Science approved the investigation. The participants received both oral and written information about the study and they gave their consent. Results: Five themes were identified from the analysis of the focus group data related to all five scenarios. These themes were ‘the right to information’, ‘choice and protection’, ‘parental rights and welfare of the women’, ‘make a decision’ and ‘women rights and sexual abuse’. Conclusion: This study has shown that while students respected women’s choice, they also expressed great ambivalence in some situations when personal values conflict with dominant societal beliefs and professional ethics. A focus on ethics education to include human rights is suggested as a means to enable students to explore their own social-value judgements, and as a means to limit the possible development of ethical confusion and moral distress.

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Evaluation of School of health students' ethics position in Turkey

Abstract: It is suggested that the courses and practices that teach students to be aware of their ethics position to create an ethical outlook can be placed in the curriculum in health schools.

Cited by 11 publications

References 26 publications

Professional values and ethical ideology: Perceptions of nursing students

Professional values and ethical ideology: Perceptions of nursing students

The relationship amongst ethical position, religiosity and self-identified culture in student nurses

Midwifery students’ reactions to ethical dilemmas encountered in outpatient clinics

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