2018 Volume 28 Issue 1 Pages 75-86
This paper focused on ethics education provided in specialized nursing care courses and analyzed the content of collected course syllabuses and textbooks adopted in 4-year training courses for care workers. As a result, all specialized nursing care courses include ethics and are based on ethics at courses setting stage. Next three core categories were extracted, namely ethics learned from care workersʼ rules of professional conduct, ethics learned from basic knowledge on bioethics, and ethics learned from care workersʼ specialized skills and on-site experience. Based on the analysis of these three core categories, the following six objectives of ethics education in nursing care subjects were identified: (i) to learn concrete details of highly abstract concepts in ethics education; (ii) to learn the significance of diverse values and individuality through providing livelihood support; (iii) to learn people in need of nursing care, thereby being aware of their conflicted feelings and ethics problems in receiving support from others; (iv) to learn the meaning of the influence of care workers on care receiversʼ decision making; (v) to learn that better communication skills develop an ethical attitude; and (vi) to specifically consider ethical issues through practical work and case studies.
