Bioethics education for practicing nurses in Taiwan: Confucian-Western clash.
To understand the gaps between current bioethics education and the requirements of practicing nurses, a semistructured questionnaire was used to invite the directors of nursing departments at all 82 teaching hospitals in Taiwan to participate in this survey. The response rate was 64.6%. Through content analysis we obtained information about previous bioethical training, required themes and content, recommended teaching strategies, and difficulties with education and its application. The results suggest that Taiwanese nursing personnel need to be instilled with both self-cultivation of morality and mental cultivation to acquire nursing virtues and the right attitudes toward bioethical issues. Good communication skills to prevent damage to the harmonious relationships between patients, their families and medical team members, policies that support the provision of systematic formal knowledge of ethics, small group training, and clarification of values were also shown to be important in bioethics education.
Yang
Wan-Ping
WP
National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan.
Chen
Ching-Huey
CH
Chao
Co-Shi Chantal
CS
Lai
Wei-Shu
WS
D001675:Bioethics / Q000193:education*; D032903:Confucianism; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D009014:Morals; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education* / Q000941:ethics*; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012945:Social Values; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013624:Taiwan; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods; D019366:Western World