Nursing students’ ethical challenges in the clinical settings: A mixed-methods study
Background:Nursing students experience ethical conflicts and challenges during their clinical education. These may lead to moral distress and disturb the learning process.Objectives:This study aimed to explore and to evaluate the nursing students’ ethical challenges in the clinical settings in Iran....
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2019
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| In: |
Nursing ethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 26, Issue: 7/8, Pages: 1983-1991 |
| Further subjects: | B
mixed-methods study
B Clinical Setting B Iran B nursing students B Ethical Challenge |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | Background:Nursing students experience ethical conflicts and challenges during their clinical education. These may lead to moral distress and disturb the learning process.Objectives:This study aimed to explore and to evaluate the nursing students’ ethical challenges in the clinical settings in Iran.Research design:This was a mixed-methods study with an exploratory sequential design.Participants and research context:A total of 37 and 120 Iranian nursing students participated in the qualitative and quantitative phases, respectively.Ethical considerations:The ethical committee of Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Iran, approved the protocol of the study.Findings:Three main categories were extracted from qualitative data including Low attention of nurses to the patients’ preferences; Lack of authority; and Inadequate support. A total of 97% of the students had more than one ethical challenge in clinical settings and 48% of them stated that their challenges did not resolve. The total score of perceived ethical challenges was 62.03 ± 9.17, which was moderate. The highest mean score related to the “Low attention of nurses to the patients’ preferences” subscale.Discussion:The finding confirmed most of the existing results of other international researches about the frequency and kinds of baccalaureate nursing students’ ethical challenges.Conclusion:Identifying student ethical challenges helps teachers to manage their clinical learning process better. This study may provide a view for the nurses, clinical educators, and managers toward nursing students’ ethical challenges and their impact on nursing students’ clinical experiences. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-0989 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Nursing ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0969733018810766 |
