Investigating the effect of education based on the promotion of ethical sensitivity on the nurse caring behavior from patients' perspective

Purpose and background: Nursing ethics education to nurses, increases their awareness of the ethical aspects of their work and develops their ethical sensitivity towards them. Nursing ethics education, integrates nurses' ethics-based knowledge performance in different conditions. This study was performed to determine the effect of education based on the promotion of ethical sensitivity of nurses on the nurse caring behavior of nurses from patients' perspective in Cardiothoracic Surgery Units. Methodology: This semi-experimental study was performed on 200 patients admitted to the hospitals of Naft and Mehr of Ahvaz in Iran in 2015-2016. The intervention and control groups were included in the study with random allocation. Data collection was performed by the Wolf's caring behavior questionnaire and the information were analyzed using spss16, descriptive statistics and inferential tests of Mann-Whitney, chi-square (chi-square test) and covariance ratings. Findings: The average total scores of caring behavior in the intervention group before and after the intervention were (3.34 +/- 0.72) and (4.91 / +/- 0.1), respectively. The results indicate that the behavior of the nursing care of the nurses from patients' perspective in all areas was significantly higher after the intervention (P< 0 /0001). Conclusion: This study showed that nursing ethics education can improve the ethical sensitivity of nurses and improve the quality of nursing care. The findings of this study could focus on designing training programs to improve ethics in nursing.