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Do Nursing Students' Cyberloafing Levels Affect Their Moral Sensitivity?

Özlem Albayrak1, Seda Dere İşseven, Kübra Berber

  • 1About the Authors Özlem Albayrak, PhD, is a lecturer, Department of Nursing Fundamentals, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Rize, Turkey. Seda Dere İşseven, MSc, RN, is a lecturer, Department of Nursing Fundamentals, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Rize, Turkey. Kübra Berber, PhD, is a lecturer, Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Rize, Turkey. This study was carried out with the participation of nursing students at a university in Rize. We would like to thank our students for their participation. The financial support for this study was provided by the investigators themselves. Artificial intelligence support was used for linguistic editing and expression improvement purposes in writing this article.

Nursing Education Perspectives
|October 8, 2026
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Keywords:
CyberslackingEthicsMoral SensitivityNursing Students

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