title: Professional Ethical Competence in nursing: the role of nursing instructors.
abstract: Teaching ethics to nurses leads to their involvement in providing high quality care, enable them to duly encounter ethical issues. One of the key elements of educational systems is nursing instructors. Even though lots of studies show the role of instructors in students' learning, their role in promotion of professional ethics has been attended to less. The objective of this study is surveying the experience of nursing students with respect to the role of instructors in promotion of professional ethics. This qualitative study enrolled 15 undergraduate nursing students from three nursing schools in Teheran whom depth interview was performed. The interview was semi-structured with open ended questions. The analysis was accomplished by use of qualitative content-analysis method. Data analysis demonstrated 2 main themes and 7 subcategories in regard to the role of instructors in promotion of professional ethics in nursing students including: 1) the effective professional role model 2) facilitating creative learning. The effective professional role model encompasses individual characteristics and beliefs, clinical skills and professional commitment of role model. Creative learning facilitates by encouraging critical thinking and decision-making, Providing supportive learning conditions, providing proper space for sharing knowledge followed by evaluation and creative feedback. The findings of this study provides a background for strengthening the role of instructors in promotion of professional ethics with more emphasis on research which increase capability of instructors at nursing education centers.
authors.affiliation: PhD Nursing student, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran;
authors.forename: Fariba
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Borhani
authors.forename: Fatemeh
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Alhani
authors.forename: Easa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mohammadi
authors.forename: Abbas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Abbaszadeh
keywords: Ethics; Nursing; Nursing student
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