Ethics is important in all professions, particularly in nursing, since morality and commitment in nurses can play a significant role in improving patients’ health and recovery. The nursing profession is therefore rooted in ethics, and the observance of nursing ethics is more important than other aspects of health care. This study aimed to determine patient's views on standards of professional e...

Medical ethics is an interdisciplinary knowledge which increasingly developed during the last 30 years, and nowadays it becomes a part of medical student’s curriculum. Although, the quality of medical education has improved in Iran, but medical ethics teaching has not accomplished effective alteration yet. For deeper and more actual recognition of the challenges of medical ethics curriculum, we...

 Background and purpose: Professional ethics is one of the most important issues in medical ethics. The aim of this investigation was to study the levels of professional ethics among medical interns in Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences in a clinical setting from the perspective of professors. Materials and methods: This descriptive-analytical study was performed in 161 faculty members ...

This research aims to benchmark (national and international) experiences in the field of professional ethics documents at universities and provides solutions to improve it. The study population consisted of 100 top universities in the world (based on the Shanghai ranking) and 539 universities in Iran. Of these, 59 universities in Iran and 100 universities abroad have professional ethics documen...

Nursing theories have their roots in philosophical schools, and acceptance of a school of philosophy can direct the theoretical and clinical activities of a nurse.The present paper used a qualitative and explanatory-applied method. After a review of the general features of post-structuralism and post-structuralist ethics, the challenges and opportunities of post-structuralism in nursing and nur...

Background: The increased recognition of ethical problems has contributed to the resurgence of ethics in relation to health care, and to the emergence of medical ethics as a new collaborative discipline in the world. The growing trends in biomedical technologies have been associated with increasing discussions about ethical aspects of the new knowledge in different societies. Advances in gene...

Medicine and ethics have increasingly more links caused by considerable progresses in biotechnology in different fields of medical diagnosis, treatment and prevention. The issue of research ethics is one of the most important subjects which have been emphasized by international and regional organizations, policy-makers, medical and religious professions, scientists and researchers in different ...