Ethical issues

Background: Nursing is an ethical profession and nurses are responsible for patient care. Caring for older adults requires special attention to ethical and legal issues. Nurseschr('39') unawareness in this regard would reduce patient autonomy, the quality of nursing care and finally world reduce nursing professional credentials. The aim of this study was assessing nurseschr('39') awareness of ethical and legal issues related to caring for older adults. Method: This study was cross-sectional descriptive‎. Participants were 200 nurses that worked in Hospitals in Kashan (2014-2015).Data was collected by the researcher-made questionnaire including three part, personal information, questions about ethical and legal issues related to caring for older adults and a question about factors related to nurseschr('39') ethical mistakes. Statistical analysis was conducted using descriptive and inferential statistics via SPSS 11.5 software. Results: The level of nurseschr('39') awareness of ethical and legal issues related to caring for older adults was undesirable. Kruskal- Wallis test showed a significant relationship between the score of nurseschr('39') awareness of ethical and legal issues related to caring for older adults and their academic degree (P=0.001). Mann- Whitney U test also showed a significant relationship between the score and previous training about aging (P=0.001) but there was no significant relationship between the score of nurseschr('39') awareness and their gender, marital status, work experience, working unit and employment status. Conclusion: The level of nurseschr('39') awareness of ethical and legal issues related to caring for older adults was not satisfactory. This condition should bring attention to the retraining programs and strengthening the supervisory system.

Background: This research intended to explore the effect of teacherschr('39') job satisfaction on their performance with focus on ethical consideration in some the high schools of Keman. More specifically, the present paper explored Iranian EFL teachers’ attitudes towards job satisfaction and ethical issues. It also assessed their performance and ethical matters in the EFL classes. Moreover, the study investigated relationship between teacherschr('39') job satisfaction and their performance with regard to ethical consideration. Method: To do this, 30 Iranian EFL teachers from both genders were selected as the participants of the study that were chosen based on available sampling. Two related questionnaires, Teacher Job Satisfaction Questionnaire (TJSQ) and Characteristics of Successful EFL Teachers Questionnaire (CSETQ) were employed for gathering data. The questionnaires were published among the EFL teachers of three high schools, and they had to answer them without time limitation. After that, the questionnaires were collected by the researcher and the data were analyzed using SPSS software. Results: The obtained results indicated that the teachers had positive attitude on job satisfaction and their performance in the EFL classes. Also, the findings of the study revealed that there was a significant relationship between the mentioned variables. Conclusion: It can be said that teacherschr('39') job satisfaction had impact on their performance in the EFL classes.