Abstract
BackgroundAn academic environment is the first place that nursing students are introduced to ethics related to nursing and healthcare. In this study, we explored the nursing faculty members’ point of view regarding noncompliance with these academic ethics.MethodsThis study was a qualitative descriptive study conducted in 2018. Faculty members at a nursing school were selected through purposeful sampling. Data was collected using semi-structured interviews. The interviews were digitally recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data collection and data analysis were conducted simultaneously. Data saturation was ensured with 11 interviews. The interview transcripts were analyzed using a qualitative content analysis method introduced by Elo and Kyngäs.ResultsThe participants were six women and five men with 12.72 ± 6.64 years of experience as nursing instructors. After data analysis, seven categories were identified: discrimination, violence, misuse, out-of-date instruction and knowledge, conflicts of evaluation, hypocrisy, and disorganization.ConclusionThe findings of this study indicated the existence of noncompliance regarding academic ethics. It is recommended that faculty members be informed about possible instances of ethical noncompliance in academia. There is a need to develop strategies to promote a faculty’s compliance with academic ethics. Academic administrators need to emphasize the importance of ethics in academia and use further methods to enhance academic ethics.
Highlights
An academic environment is the first place that nursing students are introduced to ethics related to nursing and healthcare
Ethics in academia is a field of study that addresses a wide range of ethical issues related to academic environments [5]
Ethics in academia refers to a set of beliefs about what is assumed to be proper behavior inside and outside the classroom [6]
Summary
An academic environment is the first place that nursing students are introduced to ethics related to nursing and healthcare. We explored the nursing faculty members’ point of view regarding noncompliance with these academic ethics. Ethics are an essential and integral part in health care education and practice [1]. Ethics in academia is a field of study that addresses a wide range of ethical issues related to academic environments [5]. Faculty and educators in academic environments have key roles in developing. Taghadosi et al BMC Nursing (2021) 20:15 students’ professional and ethical behaviors as well as values during their program [2, 7]. Faculty’s role in developing nursing students’ ethical behaviors in academia is understudied [8]. There is a lack in studies on faculty’s perspectives concerning compliance with ethical behaviors in academic environments
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