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Moral issues in mentoring sessions
Gert Hunink1, René van Leeuwen, Michel Jansen
1Christelijke Hogeschool, Ede, The Netherlands.
Nursing Ethics
|June 17, 2009
Summary
Student nurses rarely identified moral issues in clinical situations, hindering their moral development during internships. Mentoring requires enhanced leader competencies to foster ethical reflection and improve nursing education.
Area of Science:
- Nursing Education
- Bioethics
- Moral Psychology
Background:
- Student nurses' ability to identify and address moral issues in clinical practice is crucial for ethical development.
- Mentoring situations are intended to support moral development, but their effectiveness requires further investigation.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate whether student nurses identify moral aspects in everyday nursing care situations.
- To explore how student nurses deal with identified moral issues.
- To elucidate the role of mentoring in student nurses' moral development.
Main Methods:
- Quantitative and qualitative analysis of student-written documents from mentoring sessions.
- Involved students from three different nursing schools.
- Focused on problematic experiences during clinical internships.
Main Results:
- Students identified ethical questions in fewer than 13% of analyzed situations.
- Limited conscious moral reflection and deliberation were observed in mentoring sessions.
- Student nurses rarely recognized or addressed moral issues in their practice.
Conclusions:
- Current mentoring practices are insufficient to promote significant moral development in student nurses.
- Enhanced competencies for mentoring session leaders are necessary.
- Interventions are needed to improve students' ability to identify and reflect on moral dimensions of nursing care.
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