Development and Evaluation of an Educational Ladder and Relevant Programs for Ethics Education in Community Health Nursing Practice

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The purposes of this study were to develop an educational ladder and the relevant programs for ethics education to promote effective practice of public health nurses (PHNs) and home visiting nurses (HVNs) in Japan. We conducted the interviews and questionnaire surveys with PHNs and HVNs to clarify : the contents and frequencies of encountering ethical issues in their practices, the components of moral behavior, experiences with ethics education, experiences influencing nurses' decisions in practice and workplace environment related to ethical practices; then the relationships between each variable and demographic data including length of work experience and position were analyzed. Based on these results, we developed a tentative educational ladder and targeted programs for ethics education and then conducted and evaluated the trial programs for PHNs and HVNs. Finally, we revised the ethics educational ladder and the relevant programs for ethics education for PHNs and HVNs.