간호학생의 도덕 판단력에 관한 윤리교육의 효과

This study was performed to evaluate the efficacy of ethics education on nursing students. The study used the Korean version of the Defining Issues Test (DIT) and a nonequivalent control group, pretest-posttest design. Sixty-one nursing students were assigned to either an experimental (n=35) or control (n=26) group. Students who scored higher than the mean were classified as high-level students, while those who scored lower than the mean were classified as low-level students. The efficacy of ethics education on nursing students was not identified in the experimental and control groups but was partially identified in the higher and the lower moral judgment subgroups. P scores turned out to be more suitable than 4 stage scores in evaluating the efficacy of ethics education on undergraduate nursing students. It is concluded that ethics education does have an effect on nursing students’ moral judgment. Further research is needed to explain why 4 stage scores were raised for members of the lower moral judgment subgroup and to determine the effect of the field practices of nursing students on their moral judgment.