Encompassing multiple moral paradigms: A challenge for nursing educators

Providing ethically competent care requires nurses to reflect not only on nursing ethics, but also on their own ethical traditions. New challenges for nurse educators over the last decade have been the increasing globalization of the nursing workforce and the internationalization of nursing educatio...

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Authors: Shirin Caldwell, Elizabeth (Author) ; Lu, Hongyan (Author) ; Harding, Thomas (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2010
In: Nursing ethics
Year: 2010, Volume: 17, Issue: 2, Pages: 189-199
Further subjects:B Nursing Ethics
B non-European nursing students
B Judeo / Christian tradition
B Challenges
B Chinese ethical philosophies
B morally conflicting situations
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Summary:Providing ethically competent care requires nurses to reflect not only on nursing ethics, but also on their own ethical traditions. New challenges for nurse educators over the last decade have been the increasing globalization of the nursing workforce and the internationalization of nursing education. In New Zealand, there has been a large increase in numbers of Chinese students, both international and immigrant, already acculturated with ethical and cultural values derived from Chinese Confucian moral traditions. Recently, several incidents involving Chinese nursing students in morally conflicting situations have led to one nursing faculty reflecting upon how moral philosophy is taught to non-European students and the support given to Chinese students in integrating the taught curriculum into real-life clinical practice settings. This article uses a case study involving a Chinese student to reflect on the challenges for both faculty members and students when encountering situations that present ethical dilemmas.
ISSN:1477-0989
Contains:Enthalten in: Nursing ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0969733009355539