THE RELATIONSHIP OF MORAL DEVELOPMENT AND SELECTED VARIABLES TO ETHICAL DECISION-MAKING IN BACCALAUREATE NURSING STUDENTS.
Contributors: Hofstra University.
Published: 1994
Number of pages: 102
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Education, Higher.
Description: A descriptive exploratory study was carried out to discover the relationships between moral development, moral choice, moral action, completion of a formal ethics course and number of semesters of clinical practice in freshmen and senior nursing students in 3 baccalaureate nursing programs on Long Island. Scores for all groups were obtained on the Defining Issues Test, Judgements About Nursing Decisions, and Nurse-Patient Interaction Model.

As predicted senior students were at a higher level of moral reasoning than freshmen. A formal ethics course did not make a difference on this variable. Students who had completed a formal ethics course chose the patient advocate model more often. No significant correlation was discovered between the level of moral development and the ethical choice of the respondents in ethical dilemmas. A one-way analysis of variance was employed to test the hypothesis that students with more clinical experience would perceive greater disparity between ethical choice and ethical action. A priori contrasts were not significant for all groups.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-06, Section: B, page: 2156.

Thesis (N.S.)--HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY, 1994.

School code: 0086.