Aleda M H Chen, Sharon K Park, Robert A Bechtol, Bupendra K Shah, Heather D Anderson, M Andrew Young, Karen L Hardinger, Samantha Odem, Jill Augustine
Perceptions and Utility of Course Evaluations in US Pharmacy Schools
American journal of pharmaceutical education
nurses often faced complex situations made make ethical decisions make decisions need possess power moral reasoning studies iran show majority nursing students lack proper ethical development socratic teaching studentcentered method strongly opposed lecturing method study conducted evaluate impacts socratic questioning moral reasoning nursing students quasiexperimental study crishams nursing dilemma test used evaluate results three groups immediately 2 months intervention data analyzed using spss statistical software v 15 participants research context random allocation 103 nursing students divided three groups experiment group 1 37 students intervention consisted socratic questioningbased sessions ethics deal moral dilemmas experiment group 2 33 students attended 4h workshop control group 33 students subject interventions signed informed consent forms research approved ethics committee university participants signed written informed consents significant differences experiment group 1 experiment group 2s pretest posttest scores moral reasoning p 0001 p 0001 nursing principled thinking p 0001 p 0001 practical considerations p 0001 p 0031 teaching approaches improved subjects moral reasoning however socratic questioning proved effective lecturing compared similar studies iran countries students inadequate moral reasoning competence study confirms need development efficient course ethics nursing curriculum also appears socratic questioning effective method teach nursing ethics develop nursing students competence moral reasoning