Findings from a mixed‐methods pragmatic cluster trial evaluating the impact of ethics education interventions on residential care‐givers

Abstract

Writing over a quarter of a century ago, American philosopher Moody (1992, p. 30) distinguished between 'bioethics' and 'nursing home ethics'. He argued that whereas the former focused on the more dramatic life and death issues, the latter is more concerned with the 'small repetitive details of routine life'. Moody suggests that nursing home ethics is an 'everyday ethics' or the 'morality of the mundane'. Whilst care home ethics may not usually attract the same level of attentionindeed drama-as ethics in relation to the acute sector, it is equally important. There has been a good deal written about the ethics of elder care, most particularly in the nursing ethics literature, but there has been little attention to the means to promote or sustain ethical residential care for older adults. This article discusses findings from a mixed-methods pragmatic trial designed to evaluate three different approaches to ethics

Experiential methods in ethical education of nursing and midwifery students

“…According to Gallagher, we can distinguish five essential elements of ethical competence, i.e. ethical "knowing, " ethical "seeing" or perceiving, ethical "reflecting, " ethical "acting" and ethical "being" [15,16].…”

“…The final, fifth element of ethical competence is ethical being -promoting character as a component of ethical competence [15]. In virtue ethics, it is clear that the ethical perspective concertedly focuses on a nurse's character as her ethical being [16]. Developing students' reflective capacity to consider their own character and conduct and the possibility of moral progress can be a step in the right direction [5].…”

“…Według Gallagher możemy wyróżnić pięć istotnych elementów kompetencji etycznych tj. etyczna "wiedza", etyczne "widzenie" lub postrzeganie, etyczne "odzwierciedlanie", etyczne "działanie" i etyczne "bycie" [15,16].…”

“…Experiential methods in ethical education of nursing and midwifery students PRACE POGLADOWE Review Papers jasne, że perspektywa etyczna koncertuje się na charakterze pielęgniarki jako jej etycznym bycie [16]. Rozwijanie u studentów zdolności refleksyjnej do rozważania własnego charakteru i postępowania oraz możliwości postępu moralnego może być krokiem we właściwym kierunku [5].…”