RT Article
T1 Educational approach for public health ethics in nursing: Focusing on COVID-19
JF Nursing ethics
VO 31
IS 8
SP 1722
OP 1733
A1 Byun, Hye Min
A1 Yun, Eun Kyoung
A1 Kim, Jung Ok
A2 Yun, Eun Kyoung
A2 Kim, Jung Ok
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1909418196
AB BackgroundWith the increasing ethical challenges and dilemmas faced by nurses due to various disasters such as COVID-19 worldwide, there is a need for a new public health ethics education curriculum to strengthen competencies for ethical responses in the nursing field.ObjectivesThis study was aimed to identify the impact of a teaching method utilizing news articles and panel discussion material in the public health ethics education program on nursing students’ thinking regarding ethical issues.DesignThis was an exploratory study to identify the thinking styles inherent in ethical reflection by analyzing the reflection contents written by nursing students using text mining techniques.Participants73 among the students taking a nursing ethics course at a university in Seoul, South Korea, voluntarily participated in this study after providing informed consent.MethodsThe public health ethics program was conducted with sessions held once a week for a total of 7 weeks, and reflections written by nursing students were collected as text files during session 5 to 7. In this study, data preprocessing process, keyword analysis, and LDA topic modeling were sequentially conducted utilizing the R program according to the data analysis procedure of text mining techniques.Ethical considerationsThis study was conducted under ethics approval from the institution where participants were recruited.Findings and discussionThe results of this study show that the teaching method utilizing news articles enhanced rational ethical deliberation from the cognitive aspect, whereas the teaching method utilizing panel discussion material strengthened the response to emotions on a more internal level.ConclusionsThe teaching method utilizing news articles and panel discussion materials in public health ethics education is expected to be mutually complementary and effective, so further studies are recommended.
K1 Professional Ethics
K1 theory/philosophical perspectives
K1 Narrative Ethics
K1 ethics education
K1 Moral Sensitivity
K1 topic areas
K1 codes of ethics
DO 10.1177/09697330241263991