DEVELOPING ETHICAL BEHAVIORS OF NURSING STUDENTS TOWARD BECOMING PERSONNEL OF MORAL HOSPITALS
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Virtues are the cornerstone of goodness and righteousness, expressed through an individual’s actions, words, and thoughts. They serve as guiding principles for one’s conduct, eventually becoming habits. These virtues benefit oneself, others, and society, much like in the nursing profession. Nursing is guided by professional ethics and a nursing code of conduct, which sets standards for nursing practice. Adhering to this code demonstrates nurses’ ethical behavior, ensuring quality work, patient safety, responsiveness to user needs, and building public trust in the nursing profession. This assertion is consistent with the Ministry of Public Health’s policy under the first Master Plan for Moral Promotion of the Ministry of Public Health (2017-2021), which encourages all organizations within the Ministry to become moral organizations and moral hospitals. The implementation of measures and mechanisms to drive and promote ethics and morality has led to the expansion of this initiative to hospitals, aiming for them to become moral hospitals. This has also extended to hospital personnel, fostering an awareness of Thai societal values, which in turn promotes the virtues of “Sufficiency, Integrity, and Public-Mindedness”.
Therefore, nursing educational institutions responsible for producing nurses for moral hospitals must adjust and integrate, as well as continuously develop teaching methods to make nursing students aware that being a good citizen of a moral hospital is an important aspect of the profession. By emphasizing the use of ethical reasoning to connect with the reality of today’s society, if educational institutions promote students to become personnel of ethical hospitals, this will reduce complaints and lawsuits against nurses. This is in addition to providing nursing students solely with knowledge and practical nursing skills, so that nursing students can live in a highly competitive society and become professional nurses with ethics, morals, and quality.
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