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Ethical Decision Making Levels of Nursing Students
Dilek Sari1, Ebru Baysal2, Gul Gunes Celik3
1Dilek Sari, Associate Professor, Department of Fundamentals Nursing, Ege University School of Nursing, Izmir, Turkey.
Objective:
The present study was conducted to determine nursing students' levels of ethical decision-making.
Methods:
The sample of the descriptive study consisted of 240 nursing students. The data were collected using the Student Information Form and "Nursing Dilemma Test".
Results:
It was found that Principled Thinking (PT) mean score (48.38±7.97) of nursing students was above average while their Practical Consideration (PC) mean score (17.87±4.13) was close to average. It was also determined that the nursing students participated in the study were not familiar (17.75±2.77) with the dilemmas included in the Nursing Ethical Dilemma Test.
Conclusion:
The students paid attention to consider ethical principles when making decisions about ethical dilemmas; however, they are also affected by environmental factors as well. Sex and class level were found to be influential in the process of ethical decision making.
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