title: Ethics in nursing education: learning to reflect on care practices.
abstract: Providing good care requires nurses to reflect critically on their nursing practices. Ethics education must provide nurses with tools to accomplish such critical reflection. It must also create a pedagogical context in which a caring attitude can be taught and cultivated. To achieve this twofold goal, we argue that the principles of a right-action approach, within which nurses conform to a number of minimum principles, must be integrated into a virtue ethics approach that cultivates a caring attitude. Ethics education that incorporates both the ;critical companionship' method and the use of codes of ethics contributes positively to cultivating critical reflection by nurses.
authors: Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. linus.vanlaere@med.kuleuven.be
authors: Linus
authors: L
authors: Vanlaere
authors: Chris
authors: C
authors: Gastmans
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards; D032781:Codes of Ethics; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004645:Empathy; D004993:Ethics, Nursing / Q000193:education*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D024802:Nurse's Role / Q000523:psychology*; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics; D009736:Nursing Process; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D028662:Principle-Based Ethics; D012647:Self-Assessment; D013850:Thinking; D028722:Virtues