LibGuides: Ethics in Nursing: Articles

Articles of Interest

Ethics education in MSN programs: a study of national trends
Ethics education in nursing: Challenges for nurse educators
The aim of this research was to explore the experiences of a group of nurse educators responsible for teaching ethics to undergraduate nursing students, and to discuss the ethical challenges they encountered in their classroom practice.
Ethics Education in Nursing: Instruction for Future Generations of Nurses
The development and validation of the Ethical Sensitivity Questionnaire for Nursing Students
Recent advances in medicine and an increasingly demanding healthcare environment are causing various complicated ethical problems. Nursing students need to prepare to deal with ethical issues in their future roles. Ethical sensitivity is a key aspect of the ethical decision-making process; however, there is no scale to measure nursing students’ ethical sensitivity. Therefore, we developed a scale and verified its reliability and validity.

Ethical Decision Making Levels of Nursing Students
The present study was conducted to determine nursing students’ levels of ethical decision-making.
An evaluation of adherence to ethical codes among nurses and nursing students
Moral Sensitivity among Senior Nursing Students in Turkey.
This is a cross-sectional descriptive research which aims at determining the senior nursing students’ moral sensitivity in identifying and solving the ethical problems

AHIMA Code of Ethics
American Health Information Management Association
Ethics at Work: What Nurses Really Do on the Job.
The author discusses the primary commitment of nurses under Provision 2 of the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics in 2015. Topics covered include the definition of nursing presence, the authority, accountability, and responsibility of the nurse for nursing practice, and percentage of U.S. citizens who rate the honesty and ethical standards of nurses as very high or high according to a Gallup poll.
Nurses Again Outpace Other Professions for Honesty, Ethics
Nurses rated highest for honesty and ethics for 17th consecutive year
Nurses Keep Healthy Lead as Most Honest, Ethical Profession
Nurses outpace 21 other professions on honesty and ethics rating
When Doctors and Nurses Can’t Do the Right Thing
The Nursing Code of Ethics: Its Value, Its History

American journal of bioethics : AJOB
Bioethics
Peer reviewed articles on the ethical questions raised by current biomedical research and issues. Questions are considered on the basis of concrete ethical, legal, and policy problems, and in terms of fundamental concepts, principles and theories.