RT Article
T1 The relationship of ethics education to moral sensitivity and moral reasoning skills of nursing students
JF Nursing ethics
VO 19
IS 4
SP 568
OP 580
A1 Park, Mihyun
A1 Kjervik, Diane
A1 Crandell, Jamie
A1 Oermann, Marilyn H
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2012
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1779450443
AB 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 Sensitivity Questionnaire and the Korean Defining Issues Test. The results showed that moral sensitivity scores in patient-oriented care and conflict were higher in senior students than in freshman students. Furthermore, more hours of ethics content were associated with higher principled thinking scores of senior students. Nursing education in South Korea may have an impact on developing student moral sensitivity. Planned ethics content in nursing curricula is necessary to improve moral sensitivity and moral reasoning of students.
K1 Undergraduate Student
K1 Nursing
K1 Moral Sensitivity
K1 Moral Reasoning
K1 Ethics
K1 Education
DO 10.1177/0969733011433922