Alternative Courses of Action

In order to make nursing students with no clinical experience to be more aware about “Ethico-Moral
Responsibility”. The following actions will help to spread awareness regarding the problems involving ethico-
moral responsibility of nurses.

1. We will have a lecture that will talk about the ethics education involved lectures related to “nursing ethics
and professionalism”.
Nursing education must first help established a value system in students. They need to employ holistic
approach. This would not only help to expand students’ intellectual capacity but it would also cultivate
emotionally stable and morally mature human beings. The ethical education is necessary for nursing education
because it would help the students to focus on developing their understanding on desirable nursing behaviors.
Furthermore, it would also raise ethical awareness, which is necessary for resolving the various ethical issues
that the nursing students might encounter when working as nurses in the future. Based on the study of Kang Se
Won of the Department of Nursing on Dongseo Univeristy, it has been suggested that education on the code of
ethics might help to establish the identity of professional nursing behaviors and promote professional
development. In addition, it has been argued that educational interventions or experiential stimulation should be
implemented since the initial stage of theoretical education and clinical practice, to help students to recognize
the code of nursing ethics and promote the establishment of professional values.
2. We will have a “Sharing Your Story Program” involving the ethical problems or issues that we have
encountered in the clinical setting.
Nothing can be more interesting than people who are sharing their encountered ethical issues that they have
experienced first-hand or through a loved one. We are raised from childhood with values often impacted by our
families, religion and the society around us. These values set the stage for how we manage ethical challenges in
our day-to-day lives. In this action, we will able to speak out and help each other by giving advices with the
help of our clinical instructor or professors. This is especially true for us because it will help us to develop a
very effective strategies which will able to prevent or avoid more problems to come. This would not only help
but also practice what we are going to do in case it might happen again. According to an article of Mary
Hooshmand, clinical instructors and/or nurse educators should address ethical practice issues with young or less
experienced nurses because it will help develop the young and less experienced nurses as they first encounter
ethical challenges in their clinical practice and it will also promote interprofessional collaboration, as well as
knowledge and skills using bioethical principles applied within their practice movements.
3. We will do an action research about ethical courses or educations used in nursing colleges.
Ethical education in nursing provides a critical foundation for addressing ethical questions that arise in the
patient-provider relationship. These questions are many and often include central concerns surrounding truth-
telling, informed consent, and protecting the rights and welfare of patients and families in decision making. The
lack of ethics preparation at both the undergraduate and graduate level hampers nurses’ ability to work
collaboratively with other team members and share their voices when ethical issues confront clinicians and their
patients and families. According to a research conducted by School of Health Sciences of Massey University,
the vast majority of research in nursing ethics over the last decade indicates that nurses may not be fully
prepared to 'deliver the goods' for their patients, or to contribute appropriately in the wider current health care
climate due to the content and teaching modules for these ethics courses have still not been established in other
universities and/or colleges. Hence, we will do a research about ethical courses used in universities and/or
colleges and hoped that such eye-opener work may serve as a catalyst for nurse educators to reexamine their
teaching practices with a view to enhancing good and effective nursing practice through educational means.