Kongju National University, South Korea.
Suwon Science College, South Korea.
Nurs Ethics. 2019 May;26(3):833-844. doi: 10.1177/0969733017727155. Epub 2017 Sep 11.
Academic ethical awareness is an important aspect especially for nursing students who will provide ethical nursing care to patients in future or try to tread the path of learning toward professional acknowledgement in nursing scholarship.
The purpose of this study was to explore academic ethical awareness and its related characteristics among undergraduate nursing students.
This study commenced the survey with cross-sectional, descriptive questions and enrolled convenient samples of 581 undergraduate nursing students from three universities in South Korea. It was investigated with structured questionnaires including general characteristics and academic ethical awareness related.
This study was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board at National University.
Academic ethical awareness was the highest regarding behaviors violating the respect or confidentiality of patients and cheating on exams, while it was the lowest for inappropriate behaviors in class. From the result of general characteristics difference, male students showed higher score than female students in relative; first-year students showed higher score than other year students; the higher score was rated from students who were highly satisfied with their major than the other not satisfied with their major; and students with low academic stress showed higher ethical awareness score than persons with higher stress.
Personal behaviors were rated with low ethical awareness in relative, but items related to public rules and actual effects on patients or others were rated with higher score. Nursing satisfaction and academic stress are main factors on ethical awareness. To improve overall ethical awareness level of nursing students, it is required to provide more education about the importance of personal behaviors in class and need to improve the understanding of how it will be connected with future situation and effect.
学术伦理意识对于护理专业的学生来说是一个非常重要的方面，因为他们将来要为患者提供合乎伦理的护理，或者在护理学术领域努力追求专业认可。
本研究旨在探讨本科护理学生的学术伦理意识及其相关特征。
本研究采用横断面描述性问题，以韩国三所大学的 581 名本科护理学生为便利样本进行调查。采用包括一般特征和与学术伦理意识相关的结构化问卷进行调查。
本研究经国立大学机构审查委员会审查和批准。
学术伦理意识在违反患者尊重和保密以及考试作弊方面得分最高，而在课堂上不适当行为方面得分最低。从一般特征差异的结果来看，男学生的相对得分高于女学生；一年级学生的得分高于其他年级学生；对专业非常满意的学生比其他不满意专业的学生得分更高；学术压力低的学生比学术压力高的学生具有更高的伦理意识得分。
个人行为的伦理意识相对较低，但与公共规则和对患者或他人的实际影响相关的项目得分较高。护理满意度和学术压力是伦理意识的主要因素。为了提高护理学生的整体伦理意识水平，需要提供更多关于课堂个人行为重要性的教育，并需要提高对其与未来情况和影响的理解。
