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Abstract
Naturally people are not born knowing how to be ethical professionally. Instead, behaving ethically is a learned skill that can be modeled and taught as clinical skills. The present study aims to identify the professional ethics practiced by 130 nurses working in seven maternal and child health centers. These centers are affiliated to all zones of Alexandria governorate namely. Abukir, Baccos, El Hadara, Karmouz, El-Labhan, Wady El-Kamar, and Borg El-Arab. Two tools were developed and used by the researcher to collect data about nurses knowledge and practices regarding different ethical issues. The first tool was an interview questionnaire, it included socio-demographic data and nurses’ knowledge regarding nursing ethics and ethical issues, while the second tool is an observational check list, it is used to collect data about nursing performance that reflected autonomy, justice, client’s right, confidentiality, veracity, fidelity, double effect, beneficence, documentation and accountability. Data collection take around three months. The methods of data collection was preceded according to the following steps, administrative design and operational design with its preliminary phase, pilot study, data collection and lastly data coding and content analysis. All nurses working in each center was observed for two weeks daily to monitor their all activities related to maternal and child health in the center in morning shifts. This was done without interfering with any of their activity or routine procedures. The present study findings revealed that more than half of the studied nurses (56.9%) were between 25-35 years old, Nearly two third of them were married, majority of them (81.5%) were graduated either from secondary technical school for nursing or technical institute of nursing. They were rotating in different clinics in the maternal and child health centers, including ante-natal, natal, and post natal, gynecology, pediatric, vaccination family planning and or oral rehydration therapy clinics, however, about 53.1% of them having from 10 to less than 15 years of experience in their work.