Does Ethics Education Influence the Moral Action of Practicing Nurses and Social Workers?
This study focused on how ethics education and training, as well as ethics resources influenced nurses and social workers’ confidence in the moral decisions they made in their professional work. The researchers found that individuals with both professional ethics education and in-service or continuing education were more confident in their moral judgments and more likely to use ethics resources and to take moral action. The survey also showed that social workers had more overall education, more ethics education, and higher confidence and moral action scores, as compared to nurses. The researchers conclude that ethics education has positive influence on moral confidence, moral action, and use of ethics resources by nurses and social workers.
