This study aimed to explore the experience of moral distress in pre-licensure student nurse's during their clinical placement experience. Nurses and student nurses are susceptible to moral distress when faced with ethical dilemmas in nursing practice. For nurses, this may impact their personal and professional relationships, and in some instances…

Pre-registration nurse education includes both conceptual and practical elements to prepare graduates for the transition to clinical practice. Workplace learning plays an important role in developing students' confidence, clinical skills and competency. This paper explores the, perhaps overlooked, centrality of self-efficacy to all areas of…

Ethics is an integral component of the nursing profession. This phenomenological study aimed to describe how baccalaureate nursing students experience learning ethics both in the classroom and clinical setting. The interviews in this study were conducted with eight second semester senior nursing students. Four themes emerged from analyses of the…

To develop better guidelines for its use, the experiential service setting is examined ethically and the conditions under which this setting can and cannot be used as a learning laboratory are specified. (TA)

A study to determine the incidence of unethical classroom and clinical behaviors among nursing students, to find out their opinions, and to investigate the relationships among demographic data, unethical behaviors and opinions about the behaviors is discussed. (Author/MLW)