title: Teaching ethics to nurses.
abstract: Educating nurses about ethics is more complex, multidimensional, and time consuming than educating nurses about technical skills. Many factors, including the ability of the nurse to view situations holistically, the moral development of the nurse, and the institution's ethics, are involved. To illustrate how to teach nurses ethics, two examples of programs are detailed in this article.
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Brock
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Shank
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Schellhause
authors.forename: W H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Bruening
mesh_terms: D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education*