Reflection of Professional Ethics in the Nursing Curriculum

  Today, ethics is always one of the most important issues in the community that ‎is attended by many educational systems in the world. So the main ‎purpose of this research is reflecting of the professional ethics in undergraduate nursing ‎curriculum.‎ This research method is survey. The Statistical population includes third, fourth and ‎fifth years of undergraduate nursing students of Islamic Azad University of Tabriz branch that ‎they were 150 students and according to Morgan table the sample size was 108 students ‎which are selected via randomly multi-stage cluster sampling. Data are collected in regard to ‎self-made questionnaires. In order to analyze variables in descriptive statistics indicators like ‎frequency, mean standard deviation and pie chart as well as in referential statistics one sample ‎t-test and Friedman ranking are applied.‎ The findings showed that at the level of statistical error 0/05 and given the significant ‎amount (0/001) and that is less than 0/05, and also considering that all are greater than t ‎table (1/96), it could be argued that the null hypothesis is rejected. Friedman test results showed ‎that loyalty component with an average of 7/25 is in the highest rank and desire for excellence ‎and competitiveness with an average of 3/21 is in the lowest rank.‎ From the view of students, professional ethics in the nursing curriculum has ‎reflected relatively favorable. Also, the elements of professional ethics like as loyalty, ‎responsibility and honesty is most reflected in the nursing curriculum.‎