Being a professional nurse requires ethical decision making and this in turn necessitates an effective learning process. The active participation of students in the teaching of ethics will contribute to this process. This study was conducted at Hacettepe University School of Nursing, Ankara, Turkey, to determine the views of students about the nursing ethics content in the curriculum, the exami...

Based on some articles in the journal Nursing Ethics, the author outlines some of the areas of major importance for nursing in the future. These areas--the care of elderly people, long-term home-based care, genetics, international research and conflict and war--demand a new voice of nursing, which is a political voice. The rationale for a political voice is the ICN Code of ethics for nurses and...

This study described the relationships between academic class and student moral sensitivity and reasoning and between curriculum design components for ethics education and student moral sensitivity and reasoning. The data were collected from freshman (n = 506) and senior students (n = 440) in eight baccalaureate nursing programs in South Korea by survey; the survey consisted of the Korean Moral...

1Reaserch Center for Non-Communicable Diseases, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran. 2Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing & Para-Medicine, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran. 3Medical Ethics Research Center, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran. 4Medical Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing & Para-Medicine, Jahrom University of Medical Sc...

This study aimed to understand the meaning of nurses' actions related to ethical occurrences involving nursing professionals. Data were collected through interviews with nurse managers and members of a Nursing Ethics Committee who experienced the phenomenon. Data were analyzed in the framework of social phenomenology. The nurses' experiences gave rise to the following categories of meaning, as ...

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 S.P. van Rysewyk and M. Pontier (eds.), Machine Medical Ethics, Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering 74, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-08108-3_2 Abstract Machine medical ethics is a novel field of research for ethicists, philosophers, artificial intelligence experts, information scientists, and medical s pecialists. I ...

abstract: introduction: abiding with ethical discipline in nursing leads to improving nursing services and promoting the patient’s health. due to the fact that patients are the most critical elements in health care organizations, this study was carried out with the aim of determine compliance with professional ethics and its relationship with associated demographic factors from the vantage poin...