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Nursing Education 2018 Journal of Nursing and Health Studies
ISSN: 2574-2825 Page 24
April 23-25, 2018
Rome, Italy
27th Edition of World Congress on
Nursing Education &
Research
Background : The nursing profession requires increasing
competence of its practitioners at all levels. Competency
among nurses cannot be achieved unless equipped with
necessary moral sensitivity skills. Moral sensitivity is needed
in protecting and promoting human health in uncertain, high
degree of difficulty situations due to the nature of healthcare
services. Nurses who have moral sensitivity skills can be
trusted to act in ways that advance the interest of patients and
could be made accountable for the practice. Therefore, how
to best prepare students to deal with the ethical issues arise
at work place is an important obligation of nursing education
and research. There have been limited studies on the effects
of ethics education on developing students’ moral sensitivity.
Methods & Design: The study aimed at gaining an in-depth
knowledge of the relationship of ethics education on nursing
students’ moral sensitivity. Students’ perceptions of the
relative value of the ethics study in their morals were also
explored among other background factors. A non-probability,
convenient sampling techniques was utilized for recruiting 419
nursing students from different level of the Bachelor program.
A quantitative cross-sectional design was used; accordingly,
data were collected at one point in a time. The Arabic version
of the moral sensitivity questionnaire (A-MSQ) was used to
measure moral sensitivity among participants. This instrument
has excellent psychometric properties.
Results: Students’ mean age was 21.27±2.48 and GPA
was 3.5±0.64. 44.15% of students studied ethics, 11.93%
faced ethical dilemmas during their clinical practicum.
Moral sensitivity mean score was 130.87±16.99 for the total
participants. Moral sensitivity mean score did not significantly
differ between those who studied ethics and those who
did not (132.61±14.72; 129.46±18.52 respectively). Patient
centered caring, professional responsibility, and constructing
moral meaning was significantly different between the two
groups (at p<0.001). Experience of moral meaning experience
moral dilemmas and conflicts, nurse-patient relationship,
and experience of good deeds was similar across students
regardless of the study of ethics course. Moral sensitivity
was significantly different between students engaged in other
ethics related learning activities (p=.001).
Conclusion: Ethics study among participants was influential
on their patient centered caring, professional responsibility
and constructing moral meaning aspects of their moral
sensitivity. Despite total score for moral sensitivity was not
affected by ethics course study, it did significantly differ
among students who did and did not engage in other ethics
related activities. Current findings should inform program and
curriculum developers of the impact of incorporating ethics
study in all components of nursing education including theory
and practicum training. Future longitudinal studies are needed
to explore moral sensitivity development among nursing
students.
Biography
Hala Mohamed Mohamed Bayoumy, BScN, MScN, DScN is an Assistant
Professor, King Saud Bin Abdulazziz University for Health Sciences. She is
an author of many research articles (18) published in reputed journals. She
has presented papers in numerous international conferences. She is in the
Editorial Board of International Journal of Nursing & Clinical Practices. She
was Editor for the special issue: Self Care Skills and Quality of Life of Patients
- which was published under that journal. She is also a Reviewer for multi-
ple journals and member of many academic bodies. Her research interests
centers on advances in nursing education as well as exploring impact of
different illness conditions, treatment modalities and nursing interventions.
The relationship of ethics education and moral sensitivity
among undergraduate nursing students
Hala Mohamed Mohamed Bayoumy1,2, Ola Mamdouh Esheba1,3 and Gehad Al
Halabi1
1King Saud Bin Abdul Aziz University for Health Sciences, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
2Cairo University, Egypt
3Alexandria University, Egypt
Hala Mohamed Mohamed Bayoumy et al., J Nurs Health Stud 2018, Volume 3
DOI: 10.21767/2574-2825-C1-002