Enhancing student nurses' ethical skills via simulation-based learning: barriers and opportunities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nurses lack skills to analyse ethical problems, and some feel powerless and frustrated when encountering and having to deal with ethical dilemmas in clinical practice. The lack of ethical competence among nurses might somewhat be related to the neglect and side-lining of ethics in the education system. For those nurse educators who are facilitating ethics within their curriculum, their strategies and practices are inefficient due to lack of resources. Lack of efficient strategies to facilitate ethical competence create threats to ethical values in healthcare with a potential to jeopardise patients' health outcomes.

Methods

This was a qualitative, descriptive, exploratory, and contextual research that was done in one higher education institution among 9 nurse educa

SUBMITTER: Rasesemola RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11806624 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature