A Study of Clinical Nurses’ perception on Nursing Students’ Character Development Level and Requirement of Character Education Virtue for Nursing Students

Abstract

The purpose of that study is to investigate the virtues of personality education that current clinical nurses consider necessary for nursing education, and also confirm the current personality development level of nursing college students they evaluate. Finally 5O nurses participated in this study. According to the results of this study, clinical practitioners suggested that the most important virtue in personality education for nursing students is "sincere". The level of personality development of nursing college students perceived by clinical practitioners was higher in order of "sincerity", “collaboration", "responsibility" and “abstinence", "consideration", "respect" and "compliance". And, based on the necessity of education of personality items recognized by nurse practitioners and the difference of development level of current students, the order of virtues in nurse college students' character education is "sincere". Nursing educators will need to incorporate elements of these personality education items into the curriculum and the comparative activities.