Abstract
Ethical standards offer a context for behavior assessment, and nursing principles which influence nurses’ goals, and approaches with patient care. The aim of this study to evaluate the Impact of Integrated ethics program on nurses practices in health centers at rural areas in Fayoum region, Egypt. A quasi-experimental design with pre and post-test was utilized. Convenience sample were used to collect 70 nurses from three maternal and child health centers in Fayoum region. Two tools were used to collect the data, First: Self-administered interview questionnaire. Second: A structured practice observational check list to assess nurses' practices. The main results, there was an improvement after the nursing intervention program in all aspects. Concerning nurses' knowledge there was 88.6% of them satisfactory pre- intervention while, post program they became 100.0% have satisfactory knowledge. The present study concluded that, implementation of the integrated ethics program had an efficient improving nurses' knowledge, and practice regarding integrated ethics in the rural areas, with highly statically significant differences in all the tested items between pre/post program implementation (P < 0.001). The study recommended to establishment of in- service training programs, and continuous supervision in rural areas to raise nurses awareness regarding Integrated Ethics and motivate them.
Highlights
Ethics is concerned with ‘right and wrong’, agreeing what is ‘right’ can be challenging
The findings of program intervention that was confirming the study hypotheses and executed that there was significant improvement of knowledge and performance regarding integrated ethics, these results are in line with [1] who stressed that suggested training program is effective in improving nurses' knowledge and performance regarding integrated ethics
This study consisting with [23] who assess professional ethics practiced by nurses working in primary health Care centers in Port Said governorate, Egypt" who asserted that, some of nurses had attended training courses in each of different nursing practice
Summary
Ethics is concerned with ‘right and wrong’, agreeing what is ‘right’ can be challenging. It is vital that nurses appreciate the value of ethics in their work. Code of Ethics is an attempt to define basic rules, or principles for determining what constitutes "good" or "right" behavior. As well ethics is relevant to clinical, practice-based issues and affects all areas of the professional nursing role [16, 6] mentioned ethics involves determining the best course of action in a certain situation. Ethical reasoning is the analysis of what is morally right and reasonable. Ethics requires a critical analysis of actions or potential actions and helps the nurses to answer the questions for what should to do in this situation. Ethics looks at how decide between right and offers away of examine, how live and how practice [38]
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