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Nursing Ethics Education: are we really delivering the good(s)?
Martin Woods
School of Health Sciences, Massey University, Private Bag 11 222, Palmerston North, New Zealand, m.woods{at}massey.ac.nz
The vast majority of research in nursing ethics over the last decade indicates that nurses may not be fully prepared to ‘deliver the good(s)’ for their patients, or to contribute appropriately in the wider current health care climate. When suitable research projects were evaluated for this article, one key question emerged: if nurses are educationally better prepared than ever before to exercise their ethical decision-making skills, why does research still indicate that the expected practice-based improvements remain elusive? Hence, a number of ideas gleaned from recent research about the current nature of nursing ethics, and especially teaching nursing ethics to student nurses, are analysed and critiqued in this article, which concludes with a cluster of ideas and conclusions based on that analysis. It is hoped that such a review may serve as a catalyst for nurse educators to re-examine their teaching practices with a view to enhancing good (i.e. ethical) nursing practice through educational means.
Key Words: applied ethics • nursing ethics • nursing ethics education • nursing ethics research
Nursing Ethics, Vol. 12, No. 1,
5-18 (2005)
DOI: 10.1191/0969733005ne754oa
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