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    Area of Science:

    • Nursing Ethics
    • Healthcare Education
    • Professional Morality

    Background:

    • Healthcare complexity leads to practice problems and ethical challenges for nurses.
    • Inadequate nursing ethics education contributes to moral distress, attrition, and suboptimal patient care.
    • There is a need for robust curricula to foster nurse moral agency.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To explore the state of ethics education in nursing.
    • To develop a framework for enhancing nursing ethics education across curricula and practice.
    • To address the need for ethically competent nurses.

    Main Methods:

    • In-depth exploration of nursing ethics education by an expert subcommittee.
    • Development of a framework based on nursing goals and expert consensus.
    • Utilizing Rest's four-component model of moral behavior to structure guidelines.

    Main Results:

    • The proposed model identifies three key facets of nurse moral agency: characteristics, knowledge/skills, and motivation.
    • A case study demonstrates the practical application and utility of the framework.
    • The framework offers a structured approach to developing moral agency in nurses.

    Conclusions:

    • The framework facilitates the development of ethically competent nurses.
    • It supports nurses in exercising moral agency within complex healthcare environments.
    • This approach aims to meet the professional goal of ethically sound nursing practice.