Blueprint of ethics content in undergraduate education: A workshop-research study.

Background: Ethics is a fundamental component of nursing education to increase students' moral competence and moral reasoning abilities. However, the core ethics content that should be included in undergraduate education has not been established to date at the international level.

Aim: To identify the core contents required in formal undergraduate education to ensure morally competent nurses.

How nurses' moral competence can be supported: Findings from international focus groups with professionals.

Aim: To describe how nurses' moral competence can be supported from the perspective of nurses, nurse managers, researchers, educators, and nursing students.

Background: Moral competence is the capacity or ability of nurses to recognise one's own emotions of what is right or wrong, to reflect on these emotions, to make decisions, and to act in ways that bring the highest level of benefit to patients. Moral competence is part of professional competence.

Ethics in Patients' Health Literacy: a scoping review and a critical discussion.

A growing body of literature has acknowledged that a high number of populations with low Health Literacy (HL) is related to poor health outcomes, inequities in healthcare and high economic costs. Those findings have formulated the research questions of this review: (i) what ethical issues arise within the context of patients' HL and (ii) What is the relationship between HL and quality of life? This review followed the guidelines of Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) and the Preferred Reporting Items for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) and it was conducted in five databases: PubMed, CINAHL, MEDLINE, Scopus and Science Direct between June 2022 and December 2023. Out of the 3164 titles retrieved, 285 abstracts were eligible to proceed.

Ethics in undergraduate nursing degrees: An international comparative education study.

Background: Ensuring morally competent nurses depends on many factors, such as environmental, social, political, and cultural. However, several inadequacies in nursing education have been documented, and no common framework has been established for how nursing ethics should be taught in undergraduate education.

Research Questions: What are the different approaches across nursing programmes established in teaching ethics? What are the main similarities and differences across programmes facilitating a common understanding in developing a curriculum capable of preparing a morally competent nurse?

Research Design: International comparative education study in five steps: (1) formulating the initial question; (2) defining the units of comparison; (3) determining the variables of comparison; (4) describing the findings; (5) interpreting the findings.

Factors contributing to the promotion of moral competence in nursing.

Ethics is a foundational competency in healthcare inherent in everyday nursing practice. Therefore, the promotion of qualified nurses' and nursing students' moral competence is essential to ensure ethically high-quality and sustainable healthcare. The aim of this integrative literature review is to identify the factors contributing to the promotion of qualified nurses' and nursing students' moral competence.