Background: There are several studies that have targeted student nurses, but few have clarified the details\npertaining to the specific ethical problems in clinical practice with the viewpoint of the nursing faculty. This study\nwas to investigate the ethical problems in clinical practice reported by student nurses to Japanese nursing faculty\nmembers for the purpose of improving ethics education in clinical practice.\nMethod: The subjects comprised 705 nursing faculty members (we sent three questionnaires to one university)\nwho managed clinical practice education at 235 Japanese nursing universities. We performed a simple tabulation of\nthe four items shown in the study design. 1) the details of student nurse consultations regarding ethics in clinical\npractice (involving the students themselves, nurses, care workers, clinical instructors, and nursing faculty members);\n2) the methods of ethics education in clinical practice; 3) the difficulties experienced by the nursing faculty\nmembers who received the consultations; and 4) the relationship between clinical practice and lectures on ethics.\nFurthermore, the analysis was based on the idea of ethical principles, respect for persons, beneficence, and justice.\nResults: The response rate was 28% (198 questionnaires). The nursing faculty members were consulted for various\nproblems by student nurses. The details of these consultations were characterized by the principles of respect for patient\nby nurses, the principles of benevolence by faculty and clinical instructors, and the principle of justice pertaining to\nevaluations. The results indicate that there is an awareness among the nursing faculty regarding the necessity of some\nsort of ethics education at clinical settings. Moreover, based on the nature of the contents of the consultations regarding\nthe hospital and staff, it was evident that the nursing faculty struggled in providing responses. More than half of subjects\nexhibited an awareness of the relationship between the classroom lectures on ethics and clinical practice.\nConclusion: The results suggest the need for analyzing the ethical viewpoints of student nurses, prior learning, and\ncollaboration with related courses as part of ethics education in clinical practice
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