Department of Nursing Science, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Int Nurs Rev. 2009 Dec;56(4):483-90. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-7657.2009.00748.x.
To explore graduating nursing students' perception of nurse educators' teaching of codes of ethics in polytechnics providing basic nursing education in Finland.
Codes of ethics are regarded as an essential content in most nursing ethics curricula. However, little is known about how their teaching is implemented.
Descriptive, cross-sectional design was used in this study. A total of 214 nursing students responded to a structured questionnaire with one open-ended question. The data was analysed statistically by SPSS and content analysis.
Students perceived teaching of the codes as fairly extensive. The emphasis was on the nurse-patient relationship. Less attention was paid to nursing in wider social contexts. Educators' use of teaching and evaluation methods was narrow. Students whose teaching had been integrated into clinical training perceived that teaching had been more extensive. However, students did not perceive integration to clinical training as a much used teaching format. Students assessed their own knowledge and ability to apply the codes as mediocre. Those educators, whose knowledge about the codes students had assessed as adequate, were also perceived to teach the codes more extensively.
Regardless of the responding students' positive description of the teaching, the findings should be interpreted with caution, due to the students' limited interest to respond. In teaching ethics, particular attention should be paid to more versatile use of teaching and evaluation methods, organization of integrated teaching, educators' competence in ethics, and student outcomes so that the importance of ethics would come across to all nursing students.
探讨芬兰提供基础护理教育的理工学院护理专业毕业生对护士教育者教授职业道德规范的看法。
职业道德规范被认为是大多数护理伦理学课程的重要内容。然而,对于它们的教学如何实施,我们知之甚少。
本研究采用描述性、横断面设计。共有 214 名护理学生对一份包含一个开放式问题的结构化问卷做出了回应。使用 SPSS 进行数据分析和内容分析。
学生认为教学内容相当广泛。重点是护患关系。对护理在更广泛的社会背景下的关注较少。教育者使用的教学和评估方法较为单一。那些将教学融入临床培训的学生认为教学更为广泛。然而,学生并不认为这种与临床培训相结合的教学模式是一种常用的教学形式。学生对自己掌握和应用规范的知识和能力评价中等。那些学生认为职业道德规范知识足够的教育者,也被认为更广泛地教授这些规范。
无论学生对教学的正面描述如何,由于学生对回答问题的兴趣有限,因此应该谨慎解释调查结果。在教授伦理学方面,应该特别注意更灵活地使用教学和评估方法、组织综合教学、教育者的伦理学能力以及学生的学习成果,以使所有护理学生都能理解伦理学的重要性。