Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 11

A Longitudinal Analysis on Ethical Values of Nursing Students

1Assist Professor, Dept. of Nursing, Yeoju Institute of Technology, 12652, Korea

2Assist professor, Dept. of Nursing, Baekseok University, 31065, Korea

*Corresponding Author: Ok Hee Koo, koh0528@bu.ac.kr

Online published on 27 March, 2020.

Abstract

The object of the research is to navigate how ethical value and ethical sensitivity of nursing students have changed over the course of 4 years of education.

The first data was collected from 200 nursing students of two schools that were marked for convenience before the regular nursing ethics course began. The additional data were collected on the end of May of 2016, 2017 and 2018. Average and standard deviation of the collected data were calculated, and repeated ANOVA was used for finding change of difference by school year.

The result of the research demonstrates that there is a significant difference of change of ethical value by school year (F=184.30, p<.000). There is also a significant difference of change of ethical sensitivity by school year (F=2.704, p<.045). We expected ethical value and ethical sensitivity would change positively as the school year went up, but there was reluctance on the changes by school year.

: I suggest the ethical courses to develop various teaching procedures and education contents such as AI, VR, AR, and others in order to positively change ethical value and ethical sensitivity of students.

Keywords

Longitudinal Analysis, Ethical Value, Ethical Sensitivity, Nursing Students, Convergence