[For an epidemiology of ethics]

Two permanent education seminars on ethics, held in Trento and Catanzaro, for student nurses and registered nurses, were the occasion to identify and obtain a sample of the main and more burning questions nurses arise on ethical problems, and for a reflection on contents and models for teaching ethics to the nursing profession. A data collection form is presented at the end of the contribution to obtain data on problems and situations that elicit "ethical" questions. Data collected could be used to write reports, as study material and for publication.