Am I my students' nurse? Reflections on the nursing ethics of nursing education

Despite having worked in higher education for over twenty years, I am still, first and foremost, a practicing nurse. My employer requires me to be a nurse and my regulator regards what I do as nursing. My practice is regulated by the Code and informed by nursing ethics. If I am nurse, practicing nursing, does that mean that my students are my patients? This paper considers how the relationship that I have with my students can be informed by the ethics of the nurse/patient relationship. After some initial theoretical preparation concerning argument from analogy, the paper identifies some areas for comparison between the two relationships. Areas of similarity and difference identify two areas of concern: Nurse education and educators regularly engage in coercion and surveillance in an attempt to increase student success, both of which would be considered outside nursing ethics. It is concluded that these coercive practices are not conducive to an environment where character is cultivated. Despite current financial and workforce pressures, nurse lecturers and more especially their managers would do well to return to the professional ethics of nursing to question and guide their practice.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:31

Enthalten in:

Nursing ethics - 31(2024), 1 vom: 27. Feb., Seite 52-64

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Snelling, Paul [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Analogy
Code
Cultivation of character
Journal Article
Nursing education
Nursing ethics
Student nurses

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Date Completed 28.02.2024

Date Revised 29.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1177/09697330231193858

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM362658757