Implementation and Evaluation of a Nursing Ethics Course at Turkish Doctoral Nursing Programs


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JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC ETHICS, cilt.13, sa.4, ss.375-387, 2015 (ESCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 13 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2015
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/s10805-015-9243-5
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC ETHICS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.375-387
  • Hacettepe Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Graduate nursing students should have a strong ethical theoretical foundation to identify and explore scientific and technological ethical issues impacting nursing care, to assume leadership positions in practice and education, and to conduct research contributing to nursing's knowledge base. This paper reports the implementation and evaluation of a new ethics course at Turkish doctoral nursing programs. The first section describes course design and implementation. The second section evaluates the course and discusses results. Students' evaluations indicated that the concept of caring in key ethical theories, particularly care ethics, was vital to course content. The most preferred teaching method was case analysis. Students suggested increase in course length and credits, content inclusion of feminist ethics, and real-world knowledge application by other teaching strategies such as clinical practice visits and hospital ethics committee member participation.