COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS EDUCATION USING LECTURE AND MULTIMEDIA SOFTWARE ON KNOWLEDGE OF NURSING STUDENTS

Not specified pattern for ethics curriculum will be a lot of features, skills and abilities that should not be neglected in terms of ethics curriculum. The aim of this study was to determine the impact of professional ethics education using lecture and multimedia software based on knowledge of nursing students in the field of professional ethics. A quasi-experimental study of two groups before and after nursing and population were students of the School of Nursing and Midwifery of Hamedan University of Medical Sciences Semester 4 and 6 that were trained in two groups and multimedia presentations. First, all students are then assigned to two groups arrived census and number of samples in each group was 30. Test before training, immediately after training using the standard professional ethics of nurses. Data using the t test and analysis of variance for repeated measures analysis software SPSS version 20 were analyzed. The mean score of knowledge in multimedia 14.53 and 13.61 respectively in group discussion. But the difference was not significant between the two groups in terms of multimedia group had higher scores. The findings show that there are significant differences ethics education both lecture and multimedia to enhance learning in the nursing students but this is about more than lecture method was multi-media approach, so we can use both methods, especially methods of presentation used for training professional ethics of nursing. Key words: professional ethics of nursing, lecture, multimedia