Snelling, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9781-0784
(2023)
Am I my students’ nurse? Reflections on the nursing ethics of nursing education.
Nursing Ethics.
ISSN 0969-7330
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Abstract
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.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords: | code, cultivation of character, nursing ethics, nursing education, analogy, student nurses |
Divisions: | College of Health, Life and Environmental Sciences > School of Nursing and Midwifery |
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Copyright Info: | Open Access article |
Depositing User: | Paul Snelling |
Date Deposited: | 02 Oct 2023 08:46 |
Last Modified: | 02 Oct 2023 08:46 |
URI: | https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/13279 |
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