Comparison of the Effect of Two Educational Methods on the Ability to Comply with Ethical Principles(Work Conscience) of Nursing Students in Islamic Azad University –Najafabad Branch and Isfahan Azad University (Khorasgan)

Nurses play a vital role in the health care system of a country, Therefore, having moral principles and work conscience in nurses is one of the requirements of this profession.This study was conducted with the aim of comparing the effect of two educational methods on the ability to comply with ethical principles(work conscience)of nursing students in the Azad University of Najafabad and Isfahan(Khorasgan).

The number of samples in the first part (retrospective - face-to-face training) was112students and in the second part(intermittent-virtual training)169 students had the conditions to enter the research. In order to collect information, a part of the reliable and valid questionnaire tool "Clinical Competence of Nursing Students in Internship period" by Jouzi and colleagues (2014) was used, which included the ethical dimension of clinical competence. SPSS 24 software was used for data analysis.

The results showed that there was no significant difference in the mean ability scores of the nursing students of Islamic Azad University of Najafabad and Isfahan(Khorasgan)in observing the ethical principles(p>0.05)in the two courses of virtual and face-to-face training.

The non-attendance training that was held in these universities during the covid 19 has been of high quality, so that the scores obtained from the assessment of clinical competence were not significantly different from the attendance period, which shows the professionalism and pioneering nature in these two universities in teaching virtual training method.