Awareness toward the code of ethics among nursing students
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This descriptive study aimed to investigate the change in awareness toward the code of ethics for nurses among nursing students. The participants were 61 nursing students at a university in P City, South Korea. Data collection was conducted in September 2017 and March 2019. Statistical analysis was performed using mean, standard deviation, percentage, and paired samples t-test. Nursing students’ awareness toward the code of ethics for nurses significantly improved by program year level (t = 3.284, p = 0.001), with fourth-year scores outperforming their second-year scores in the following: “nurse and nursing clients” (t = 3.163, p = 0.002), “obligation of nurse as experts” (t = 3.268, p = 0.002), and “nurse and cooperators” (t = 3.251, p = 0.002). It is necessary to develop a variety of ethical education methods that use ethical codes to equip nursing students with professional ethics and morality.
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