DILEMMAS OF BACCALAUREATE NURSING STUDENTS (ETHICS, ISSUES, MORALITY).
Contributors: University of Minnesota.
Published: 1985
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: This national survey identified 25 dilemmas experienced by baccalaureate nursing students (N = 995), the perceived importance of issues embedded in the dilemmas, the frequency with which the issues were experienced, and the proportion of students who experienced the issues by demographic and classification variables. The percent of students aware of the issues by contexts are reported. A conceptual system for classifying ethical issues was developed.

The average perceived importance of issues embedded in the dilemmas ranged from 2.659 to 3.660 on a 4-point scale. The mean frequency with which the issues were experienced ranged from .926 to 16.411 times annually.

Significant differences were found for the importance of the 25 issues by 12 variables. Significant differences for proportions of students who did or did not experience the 25 issues occurred with the variables work history, location of clinical experience, class size, sex, religion, and race.

Tests for response bias revealed differences between early and late responders for the importance of 4 issues and the experiencing of 1 issue. The volunteer and random groups differed significantly by region, class size, and location of psychiatric experience.

Significant differences between the groups of early and late responders were found for the importance of 4 issues but no differences were found between these groups for the frequency with which the issues were experienced. No significant differences were found between the volunteer and random groups for the perceived importance of issues or for the frequency with which the issues were experienced.

A pilot study of registered nurses (N = 37) is reported. Statistically significant differences were found between the student and registered nurse groups for the importance of 8 issues and for whether or not 1 issue had been experienced.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-10, Section: B, page: 3390.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, 1985.

School code: 0130.