Competency of Morality Ethics and Professional Law Efficacy of Nursing Student Roi Et Rajabhat University

Abstract

The purposes of this research study are to 1) investigate the competencies of undergraduate nursing students in ethics, code of ethics, and professional law both inclusively and distinctively, 2) compare the three competencies classified by year of study, grade point average, and parent professions, and 3) compare the three expected with the actual competencies of nursing students, Faculty of Nursing, Roi Et Rajabhat University. The population included all 299 undergraduate nursing students. The 144 subjects were drawn proportionately with the year of study and selected by using a table of random number. The instrument employed to assess the three competencies for nursing students was adopted from Chantamungkhun and others (2019) with the discrimination index of .94-.99 and .94 for the reliability. Data were analyzed using mean, standard deviation, one-way ANOVA and paired sample t-test. The findings indicated that 1) the nursing students obtained a high to a very high level of competencies in ethics, code of ethics, and professional law both inclusively and distinctively. The highest competency was in professional law followed by code of ethics and ethics, respectively. 2) Comparing student competencies, the result showed that there were differences in all three competencies classified by cumulative grade point average with a statistical significance at .05 level. 3) The result also showed that there was a statistically significant difference between the mean scores of the all three expected and the actual competencies at .01 level.