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Changes in Nursing Students' Moral Judgment and Ways to Evaluate the Effect of Ethics Education

MI-Aie Lee
Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration 2013;19(3):351-360.
Published online: June 30, 2013

Department of Nursing, Dongguk University, Korea.

Corresponding author: Lee, MI-Aie. Department of Nursing, Dongguk University, 707 Sukjang-dong, Gyeongju 780-714, Korea. Tel: +82-54-770-2620, Fax: +82-54-770-2616, juliet@dongguk.ac.kr
• Received: January 30, 2013   • Revised: April 5, 2013   • Accepted: May 24, 2013

Copyright © 2013 Korean Academy of Nursing Administration

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  • Purpose
    This study was done to investigate changes in nursing students' moral judgment throughout their professional education, and to identify more suitable ways to evaluate ethics education by using P (%) scores only and P (%) scores with 4th scores.
  • Methods
    The study consisted of cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys as well as a study using a nonequivalent control group pre-post experimental design. The participants were nursing students attending a university in Gyeongju, Korea. The data were collected from September 1, 2006 to October 31, 2009 using the Korean version of the Defining Issues Test.
  • Results
    In the cross-sectional survey, there was no significant difference in the nursing students' moral judgment scores according to their school grades. In the longitudinal survey, nursing students' moral judgment scores did not change significantly over the duration of their education. In the nonequivalent control group study, the effectiveness of nursing ethics education was identified by P (%) scores only.
  • Conclusion
    The evidence indicates that nursing professional education does not influence the development of nursing students' moral judgment, and using P (%) scores only seems to be a better way compared to other ways to evaluate the effects of nursing ethics education.
  • Key Words: Nursing education; Ethics; Moral judgment
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Figure 1
Participants' moral judgment scores (2006) (N=156).
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Figure 2
Changes of moral judgment scores with school years (2006~2009).
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Table 1
Contents of Ethical Education
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DNR=do not resuscitation.

Table 2
Homogeneity of the Participants' General Characteristics (N=83)
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Exp.=experimental group; Cont.=control group.

†Population≤1,000,000; ‡100,000≤population<1,000,000.

Table 3
Analysis of Effects of Nursing Ethics Education (2008) (N=83)
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Exp.=experimental group; Cont.=control group.

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    Figure 1 Participants' moral judgment scores (2006) (N=156).
    Figure 2 Changes of moral judgment scores with school years (2006~2009).

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    Changes in Nursing Students' Moral Judgment and Ways to Evaluate the Effect of Ethics Education

    Contents of Ethical Education

    DNR=do not resuscitation.

    Homogeneity of the Participants' General Characteristics (N=83)

    Exp.=experimental group; Cont.=control group.

    †Population≤1,000,000; ‡100,000≤population<1,000,000.

    Analysis of Effects of Nursing Ethics Education (2008) (N=83)

    Exp.=experimental group; Cont.=control group.
    Table 1 Contents of Ethical Education

    DNR=do not resuscitation.

    Table 2 Homogeneity of the Participants' General Characteristics (N=83)

    Exp.=experimental group; Cont.=control group.

    †Population≤1,000,000; ‡100,000≤population<1,000,000.

    Table 3 Analysis of Effects of Nursing Ethics Education (2008) (N=83)

    Exp.=experimental group; Cont.=control group.

    Table 1

    Table 2

    Table 3

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