Abstract

DIAZ CRESPO, Aída Rosa et al. Bioethical principles, their Relationship with patients suffering from cancer. Nursing Students of 2^nd academic year. Rev Ciencias Médicas [online]. 2007, vol.11, n.4, pp.193-201. ISSN 1561-3194.

Bioethics is the systematic study of human behaviour in the field of biological sciences and health care up to the point that this behavior is analyzed taking into account values and moral principles. A descriptive, longitudinal research to assess bioethical principles and their relationship with patients suffering from cancer was carried out, as a part of the development of skills and system of knowledge in the subject of Surgical and Community Nursing in the 2^nd academic year of nursing studies during the course 2006-2007 in the Medical School of Pinar del Rio. The total sample was composed of 143 nursing students enrolled in this municipal venue. The final sample included 70 students to apply a survey. The main variables were : knowledge about the disease, importance of organ transplantation, consent of necropsy and principles of medical ethics. Percentage method to process the information was applied. The main conclusions stated were: the majority of the students have knowledge about the management of the patients suffering from this disease, all of them expressed that patients with brain death can donate organs, consent of necropsy is of vital importance to know the cause of death and the application of bioethical principles to the medical care of those patients suffering from cancer.

Keywords : BIOETHICS; method; NURSING STUDENTS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; PATIENT.

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