Ethical Foundations for Teaching Practice at the Hospital Setting

Abstract

This work tries to show the ethical relationships which hospitalized students are enveloped. At the same time, it shows how traditional ethics is not useful in this educational context. Through this main problem, other important questions are analyzed, such as relations between care activity and psychological student configuration and their impact over educational activities. In the hospital educational environment, ethics based on caring permits teachers to build their professional identity and to have a legitimated orientation for their activities. Over the care guide, it is possible to develop a responsible and human education that recognized the importance to the whole students and their concrete circumstances attention.